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This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African
regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to
help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.
Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the
oldest trade and monetary integration schemes in the developing
world, but its colonial period and partition of have caused lasting
damage that still be seen in today’s African economies.
Contemporary post-colonial African regionalism, deeply rooted in
notions of pan-Africanism, has served as a means of collective
self-reliance and economic transformation and development. This
book starts with the history and theory behind African regionalism
before discussing and comparing regional organisations such as the
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Community of
Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Southern African Development
Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC). Finally, the book
considers how regional integration and cooperation can help to
address security and development challenges. This ambitious and
broad-ranging book will be a valuable resource for researchers
working on African regionalism, security, African integration and
development, and comparative regionalism. Policymakers should also
consider it a useful guide to the background and contemporary
landscape of African regionalism.
This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have
grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of
political leadership in the post-colonial era. The contributors
examine the role and nature of traditional governance institutions
in West Africa from pre-colonial times to the post-colonial era.
Part I considers a range of traditional institutions including
monarchies, Islamic institutions and the role of culture and arts
such as masking and music in traditional leadership. Part II
focuses on modern governance institutions, elites, political
action, arts, and democracy in post-colonial Nigeria. Part III
examines democratic institutions and processes in Nigeria's Fourth
Republic, covering issues such as electoral reforms, women's
political participation, and democratic citizenship. This book will
be of interest to students and scholars of African politics,
governance, and democratization.
This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African
regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to
help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.
Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the
oldest trade and monetary integration schemes in the developing
world, but its colonial period and partition of have caused lasting
damage that still be seen in today's African economies.
Contemporary post-colonial African regionalism, deeply rooted in
notions of pan-Africanism, has served as a means of collective
self-reliance and economic transformation and development. This
book starts with the history and theory behind African regionalism
before discussing and comparing regional organisations such as the
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Community of
Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Southern African Development
Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC). Finally, the book
considers how regional integration and cooperation can help to
address security and development challenges. This ambitious and
broad-ranging book will be a valuable resource for researchers
working on African regionalism, security, African integration and
development, and comparative regionalism. Policymakers should also
consider it a useful guide to the background and contemporary
landscape of African regionalism.
This book examines the structures and processes of political
decision-making and governance in Nigeria. Since Nigeria returned
to elected government in 1999, it has been observed that several
factors account for the differences between the design of statutory
structures and processes of political decision-making and how they
operate in reality. In other words, there are wide gaps between
statutes and practice of political decision-making. However, the
nexus between the two remains largely understudied by political
scientists. Instinctively, political scientists assume that
informal influences in political decision-making are aberrations,
episodic or temporary. This book is designed to interrogate the
nexus between the formal and non-formal dimensions of the dynamics
of political decision making in Nigeria and also provide evidence
about the actual functioning of governmental structures in Nigeria.
The thesis of the book is that the non-formal dimension of
political decision making as evidenced in rising ethno-political
patronages, religious sentiments, clientelism and factionalism, are
interacting with formal decision-making structures in ways that
largely undermine the latter and, by extension, the democratic
system. The book pursues this thesis by examining the roles of
actors and institutions including, electoral choices made by
voters, legislations, which perhaps is the most fundamental form of
political decision-making, policies made by the executive and
administration, as well as decision making within political
parties, since parties are sites for articulating and aggregating
issues on which decisions are to be made.
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