Product Description: This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to democratic governance in Africa...read more

Product Description: Since the late 1980s, Africans have been engaged in efforts to transform their societies and provide themselves with more effective governance and economic structures. Unfortunately, most of these efforts have not progressed beyond simple elections...read more

Product Description: Africa is currently experiencing sociopolitical and economic changes of unprecedented proportions. New leaders, institutions, discourses, and methods of political organization and action are shaping a new future.Through a case-study approach, this essay collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the history, trajectory, actors, institutions, contradictions, failures, and opportunities in contemporary efforts at democratization in Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Africa and the New World Order examines the role of Africa in the emerging complex and competitive global division of labor. Anchored on a dialectical discussion of Africa’s historical experience, this study examines postcolonial realignment of economic and political forces, the debt crisis, human rights, the crisis of regionalism, and the constraints to democratic transitions and consolidation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a study of oil workers in Nigeria, showing their daily confrontations with the neo-colonial state and foreign capitalists. It reveals how they devise and execute survival strategies in a state which is almost totally dependent on oil rents, and for oil corporations whose main motive is to the maximization of profits and control of the market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Nigeria is in a long-standing crisis. Military rule has suffocated civil society and has entrenched a culture of repression, corruption, and official irresponsibility. The reign of Ibrahim Babangida has resulted in near total economic disaster for the country...read more