Civil Wars in Africa, edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay
Kieh, Jr., examines civil conflicts throughout various African
countries. They argue that civil wars in Africa are by-products of
the contradictions and crises engendered by the post-colonial
state-building and nation-building projects in Africa. With few
exceptions, the post-colonial states in Africa have failed to build
societies that invest in the material well-being of their citizens;
protect their political, civil, and other rights; promote
accountability, transparency, the rule of law, judicial
independence, and the holding of free and fair elections; and
promote ethnic pluralism, tolerance, mutual respect, and peaceful
co-existence, among others. In addition, the contributors show that
the post-colonial states in Africa have been ruled by corrupt and
autocratic leaders, who are obsessed with the maintenance of state
power as the pathway to ensuring the private accumulation of wealth
through sundry illegal means, including bribery, extortion, and
theft of public funds. In sum, this volume addresses how the
failure of the post-colonial African state to shepherd the process
of building democratic societies based on the centrality of human
security has led to the erosion of the legitimacy of the state and
its custodians. Thus, once the contradictions and crises reached
their crescendo, these post-colonial societies than implode into
civil wars, even at the micro-level.
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