State And Society In Francophone Africa Since Independence (st Antony's/macmillan Series)

This book presents a series of essays by leading English and French scholas examining the politics, economics, international relations and defects of the literary scene of France and the former territories of francophone West Africa since 1965. The approach is emphatically a thematic one rather than a country-by-country analysis. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Decolonisation: French and British Styles....Pages 3-15 ‘Le Roi est mort! Vive le roi!’: The Comparative Legacy of Chiefs after the Transfer of Power in British and French West Africa....Pages 16-33 Thirty Years of Legal Practice in the Shadow of the State: The Taming of Leviathan....Pages 34-45 Public Administration, State and Society....Pages 46-61 Educational Systems, Social Stratification and the Construction of the State....Pages 62-77 Armies and Politics: The ‘Lifecycle’ of Military Rule in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa....Pages 78-96 The African One-Party State....Pages 97-105 ‘Paristroika’ and the One-Party System....Pages 106-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Models and Economic Performance....Pages 123-141 State Intervention in the Economy....Pages 142-159 The Franc Zone: Original Logic, Subsequent Evolution and Present Crisis....Pages 160-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 The Foreign Policy of Francophone Africa: Clientelism and After....Pages 183-199 Francophone Regionalism or Franco-African Regionalism?....Pages 200-212 French Military Interventions: The Case of Chad....Pages 213-227 Beyond Francophonie? The Senegambia Confederation in Retrospect....Pages 228-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Forty Years of African Literature in French: Can One Replant a Yam Whose Tendrils are Already Above Ground?....Pages 247-258 Literature and Philosophy in French-Speaking Africa....Pages 259-268 Mutual Perceptions in Africa....Pages 269-280 This collection of essays by leading European and African scholars examines the politics, economics, international relations and aspects of the literary scene of France and of the former territories of Francophone West Africa since 1960. The approach is emphatically a thematic one rather than a country-by-country analysis, and is one of the few studies of state and society in French-speaking Africa to be published in English.