List of Tables
Preface
Glossary and Acronyms
Part I Setting the Frame
1 A Half-Century of African Independence: Three Cycles of Hope and Disappointment
2 In Search of the African State
Part II Itineraries: The Three Cycles of Hope and Disappointment
3 Decolonization, the Independence Settlement, and Colonial Legacy
4 The Road to Autocracy: Breakdown of the Decolonization Settlements
5. Anatomy of State Crisis
6 Democratization and Its Limits
Part III Themes and Conclusions
7 Morphology of Violent Civil Conflict
8 Africanism, Nationalism and Ethnicity: Th Ambiguous Triple Helix of Identity
9 The African Post-colonial State: Concluding Observations
Notes
Index