Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the
ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to
the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the
elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates
questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in
Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.
The book enters conversations about political subjectivity and
agency, especially from ongoing struggles around identities and
belonging, as well as representation and legitimacy. Who speaks to
whom? And on whose behalf do they speak? The contributors to this
volume offer careful analyses of how such concerns are embedded in
wider forms of cultural, social, and institutional discussions
about transparency, collective responsibility, community, and
public decision-making processes. These concerns affect prospects
for democratic oversight, as well as questions of alienation,
exclusivity, privilege and democratic deficit. The book situates
our understanding of the emergence, meaning, and conceptual
relevance of elite accountability, to study political practices in
Africa. It then juxtaposes this contextualization of accountability
in relation to the practices of African elites. Elites and the
Politics of Accountability in Africa offers fresh, dynamic, and
multifarious accounts of elites and their practices of
accountability and locally plausible self-legitimation, as well as
illuminating accounts of contemporary African elites in relation to
their socially and historicallysituated outcomes of contingency,
composition, negotiation, and compromise.
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