The illusion of the post-colonial state : : governance and security challenges in Africa / / W. Alade Fawole.

• Superior document: African governance and development
• VerfasserIn: Fawole, W. Alade,
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: African governance and development.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 pages).

Table of Contents

• Preface: is Africa post-colonial, neo-colonial, or post-colonized?
• Part I: Colonial rule, disengagement and the post-colonial state
• Introduction and conceptual discourse
• Colonial rule and the political architecture of the post-colonial state
• The grant of independence: imperialist conspiracy and the subversion of the post-colonial state
• Britain and the orchestration of pseudo-decolonization
• The role of France in the subversion of the post-colonial state
• Portugal: forced decolonization and its consequences
• The United States and the political and economic destabilization of Africa
• Part II: Regional examples of illusive post-colonial states
• Nigeria: the illusive post-colony
• Mali: from instability to insurgency and near obliteration
• Somalia: from state collapse to rogue state
• Algeria: descent into dictatorship
• Democratic republic of Congo: the colony that never became a state
• Mozambique: from revolutionary possibilities to contrived instability and state failure
• Contemporary nation-building, governance, and security challenges in Africa
• Conclusion: The illusive post-colonial state: what hope for survival?.