Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule (Routledge African Studies)

"Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African perspective, arguing that the underdevelopment of the African economy is linked to the underdevelopment of the continents' nation states."--Publisher's website Cover Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures, Maps, and Tables List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments 1 Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Introduction 2 Political Leadership and Development in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania 3 Ethnicity and Regime Change in Ethiopia 4 Beyond Dictatorship in the Democratic Republic of Congo 5 The Trajectory of Iniquitous Dictatorship in Zimbabwe: Implications for Democratization in Southern Africa and Beyond 6 Regime Dynamics and Democratic Consolidation in Lesotho 7 Democratic Governance and Human Security in Africa: Discourse on the Fourth Republic in Nigeria 8 Democratization and the Politics of Self-Succession in Nigeria 9 Politics of Change: The Notion of ‘Giving’ and Feminist Struggles in Uganda 10 The Quest for Gender Parity in Southern African Politics 11 Regime Change, Succession Politics, and the Language Question 12 The Power of Language and the Politics of Regime Change in Africa 13 Political Imagination and the Battle of Discourses in Africa: Notes on Africa, I Will Fleece You (1992), Tears of the Sun (2003), and Beyond the Gates (2006) 14 ‘Monopoly Politikos’: An Account of a De Facto One-Party State and Lack of Regime Change in Botswana Bibliography Contributors Index