Challenges To The Nation State In Africa

Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa written by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.

Author : Cornelius A. Gaines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of the Nation-state in Africa written by Cornelius A. Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113767
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigeria and the Nation-State written by John Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria matters. It is Africa’s largest economy, and it is projected to become the third most populous country in the world by 2050, but its democratic aspirations are challenged by rising insecurity. John Campbell traces the fractured colonial history and contemporary ethnic conflicts and political corruption that define Nigeria today. It was not—and never had been—a nation-state like those of Europe. It is still not quite a nation because Nigerians are not yet united by language, religion, culture, or a common national story. It is not quite a state because the government is weak and getting weaker, beset by Islamist terrorism, insurrection, intercommunal violence, and a countrywide crime wave. This deeply knowledgeable book is an antidote to those who would make the mistakes of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq—mistakes based on misunderstanding—in Nigeria. Up to now, such mistakes have largely been avoided, but Nigeria will soon—and Campbell argues already does—require much greater attention by the West.

Author : Godknows Boladei Igali
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490720901
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa written by Godknows Boladei Igali and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of state formation and national integration is evident, and the need for a solution is even more demanding in places like Africa where nation states were formed under very special historical circumstances. In Perspectives on Nation-State Formation in Contemporary Africa, author Godknows Boladei Igali presents a digest that examines the challenges of state formation and national integration in Africa and offers preferred solutions within the context of the symbolic diversities. In this study, Igali outlines the immediate context and challenges of national integration in Africa in its human dimension. He reviews the political formations of ancient Africawhich varied in size, philosophical premise, and organisational structuresand discusses partition, military invasions, conquest, and colonisation. He then addresses colonial rule or administration, African nationalism, and decolonisation and analyses the process of nation-state formation in post-independent Africa from the perspective of the political systems and ideologies Reviewing a wide range of time from ancient times through the colonial period and since independence, this survey discusses the processes of national integration and nation-state formation in Africa, providing perspectives that deepen the understanding of these nation-building processes.

Author : Joseph Saye Guannu
Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
ISBN 13 : 2811103503
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-states and the Challenges of Regional Integration in West Africa written by Joseph Saye Guannu and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Markakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783945561560
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nation-State written by John Markakis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lamont DeHaven King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Nation-state written by Lamont DeHaven King and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges socio-historical analyses that posit a relationship between modernity and the nation-state. It questions whether the nation-state is a distinctively European phenomenon that emerged as a result of some combination of the development of capitalism and the legacy of citizenship derived from the French Revolution. The book defines the state, differentiates it from the nation, and in so doing, defines the nation-state.

Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-building and State Building in Africa written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raj Bardouille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818844
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Failed and Failing States written by Raj Bardouille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State collapse is one of the major threats to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa today. In a collapsed state the regime finally wears out its ability to satisfy the demands of the various groups in society; it fails to govern or to keep the state together. The collapse is marked by the loss of control over political and economic space. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions and has no effective control over its territory and borders. Efforts to avoid drawing other nations into a wider conflict created by the collapse of a state—and creating favorable conditions for reconciliation and reconstruction of a failed state after it has collapsed—present major challenges. In April, 2008 the Cornell Institute for African Development called a symposium on ‘Failed and Failing States in Africa: Lessons from Darfur and Beyond’ to address these critical issues. Key contributions to the symposium are brought together in this volume. Taken together these essays represent a significant discussion on the challenges presented by the presence of failing states within Africa.

Author : Ronald Aminzade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107436052
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa written by Ronald Aminzade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism has generated violence, bloodshed, and genocide, as well as patriotic sentiments that encourage people to help fellow citizens and place public responsibilities above personal interests. This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies concerning the rights of citizens, foreigners, and the nation's Asian racial minority. These policy debates reflected a history of racial oppression and foreign domination and were shaped by a quest for economic development, racial justice, and national self-reliance.