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| Title: | Modern African State
: Quest for Transformation |
| Author: | Godfrey Mwakikagile |
| ISBN: | 1560729368 : 9781560729365 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x235mm |
| Pages: | 251 |
| Weight: | .555 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - July 2001 |
| List Price: | 39.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: AFRICA |
This book examines the modern African State as a fragile institution because of its structural flaws. It focuses on a number of African countries whose combined analyses provide a focal point for looking at the whole continent as one giant place with crumbling state institutions whose fragility threatens the very existence of several African countries. Even in rich African countries, peace and stability is threatened and rampant corruption and dictatorship. Nothing better demonstrates the weakness and cruelty of the modern African State than its willingness to instigate tribal violence in a number of African countries and its inability to contain such hostilities in many others. In an attempt to put such weakness in proper perspective, the author focuses on analyses of case studies, as the context for a better understanding of the modern African State, as the most dominant institution on the African continent.
