"A highly readable, sweeping, and yet detailed analysis of the African state in all its failures and moments of hope. Crawford Young manages to touch upon all t

How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature,

Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so imp

The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first cen