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The Postcolonial State in Africa - Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010 (Paperback)
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The Postcolonial State in Africa - Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010 (Paperback)
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In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an
informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of
African independence, drawing on his decades of research and
first-hand experience on the African continent. Young identifies
three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the
African states (including those in North Africa) over the last
half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s
followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party
autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence,
radicalisation, and ambitious state expansion in the 1970s
preceding state crisis and even failure in the disastrous 1980s;
and a phase of reborn optimism during the continental wave of
democratisation beginning around 1990. He explores in depth the
many African civil wars-especially those since 1990- and three key
tracks of identity, Africanism, territorial nationalism, and
ethnicity. Only more recently, Young argues, have the paths of the
fifty-three African states begun to diverge more dramatically, with
some leading to liberalisation and others to political, social, and
economic collapse-outcomes impossible to predict at the outset of
independence.
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