Issues and Trends in Contemporary African Politics: Stability, Development, and Democratization

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Chapter 1 - Introduction 1
• Notes 11
• Chapter 2 - Political Instability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 13
• Notes 46
• Chapter 3 - Violence: the Perennial Obstacle to Social, Economic and Political Development in Nigeria, 1960-1990 53
• Notes 70
• Chapter 4 - The Crises of Nation Building: the Liberian Experience 73
• Notes 86
• Chapter 5 - Election Monitoring and the Democratization Agenda in Africa: the Case of the 1991 Zambian Elections 89
• Notes 119
• Chapter 6 - Global Transformation and Political Reforms in Africa: the Case of Ghana 125
• Notes 140
• Chapter 7 - Legitimizing the Illegitimate: the 1992 Presidential Election as a Prelude to Ghana's Fourth Republic 143
• Notes 168
• Chapter 8 - Visions of Change in Cameroon Within the Context of a New World Order 173
• Notes 188
• Chapter 9 - Ethiopia: the Pitfalls of Ethnic Federalism 191
• Notes 232
• Chapter 10 - South Africa: the Long and Arduous Road to a New Dispensation 237
• Notes 261
• Appendix 267
• Chapter 11 - South Africa in the African Dilemma 273
• Notes 286
• Chapter 12 - Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects 287
• Notes 316
• Chapter 13 - Obstacles to African Development 321
• Notes 335
• Chapter 14 - Pan-Africanism: Agenda for African Unity in the 1990's? 337
• Notes 364
• Contributors 367
• Bibliography 371

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