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The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State : Governance and Security Challenges in Africa, Paperback / softback Book

The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State : Governance and Security Challenges in Africa Paperback / softback

Part of the African Governance, Development, and Leadership series

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This book challenges the long-held conventional wisdom that Africa is a post-colonial society of sovereign nation-states despite the outward attributes of statehood: demarcated territories, permanent populations, governments, national currencies, police, and armed forces.

While it is true that African nation-states have been gifted flag independence by their respective colonial masters, few have reached fully developed status as a secure nation-state.

Most African nation-states have, since independence, been grappling with the crisis of state-building, nation-building, governance, and myriad security challenges which have been chronically exacerbated by the dynamics of the post-Cold War era.

To focus merely on the agency of the African political elite and their inability to sustain functional modern nation-states misses the point.

The central argument of the book is that an understanding of Africa’s contemporary governance and security challenges requires us to historicize the discourse surrounding nation-building and state-building throughout Africa.

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