African politics : critical and primary sources / edited by Kevin Dunn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1 -- Part I: Pre-colonial and colonial legacies -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- The pre-colonial legacy -- The internal African frontier: the making of African political culture / Igor Kopytoff -- The colonial legacy -- The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terrence Ranger -- Colonialism and the two publics in Africa: a theoretical statement / Peter Ekeh -- On the size and shape of African states / Elliott Green -- Part II: Identity and politics -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Ethnicity -- Explaining ethnic political participation / Nelson Kasfir -- The political salience of cultural difference: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi / Daniel Posner -- Social class -- The nature of class domination in Africa / Richard L. Sklar -- Class formation in the swollen African state / Larry Diamond -- Gender -- Introduction to African feminism / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Religion -- Africa and Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium: the religious dimension / Kwame Bediako -- Men and devils / Stephen Ellis -- Nationalism and Pan-Africanism -- The rise of African nationalism: the case of east and central Africa / Robert Rotberg -- I am an African / Thabo Mbeki -- Volume 2 -- Part III: The practice of power -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- The post-colonial state -- Provisional notes on the postcolony / Achille Mbembe -- The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state / Frederick Cooper -- Patronage, clientalism and neopatrimonialism -- Clientelism and prebendal politics / Richard Joseph -- It's our time to "chop": do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it? / Staffan Lindberg -- Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa / Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael Johnston -- Society -- Beyond the state: civil society and associational life in Africa / Michael Bratton -- Civil society and public sphere: the new stakeholders / Célestin Monga -- Political regimes: authoritarianism to democracy -- Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa / Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg -- Explaining democratic transitions / Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle -- Representations of power / Michael Schatzberg -- The distinctive political logic of weak states / William Reno -- Museveni's Uganda in comparative context / Aili Mari Tripp -- Volume 3 -- Part IV: The political economy of stagnation and development -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Historical factors -- Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa: origins and contemporary forms / Samir Amin -- Structural factors -- Resource wealth and political regimes in Africa / Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon -- Societal factors -- The state and economic stagnation in tropical Africa / Richard Sandbrook -- Aid, adjustment and international financial institutions -- The structural adjustment of politics in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- Aid and sovereignty: quasi-states and the international financial institutions / David Williams -- Debt and aid: righting the incentives / David Leonard and Scott Straus -- Renaissance and renewal? -- How to rebuild Africa / Stephen Ellis -- New African initiative / Henning Melber -- Volume 4 -- Part V: Conflict and security -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Evolving warfare / William Reno -- War and the state in Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- African guerrilla politics: raging against the machine? / Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn -- How "new" are "new wars?" Global economic change and the study of civil war / Mats Berdal -- Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts / Mats Utas -- Part VI: African international relations -- Introduction / Kevin Dunn -- Understanding Africa's place in world politics / Ian Taylor and Paul Williams -- Why Africa's weak states persist: the empirical and the juridical in statehood / Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg -- Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent / James Ferguson.