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Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

Editors: Obadare, Ebenezer; Adebanwi, Wale

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56686-7

ISBN: 978-1-349-56222-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 16, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Governance and the Unending Search for Leadership in African Politics

Adebanwi, Wale; Obadare, Ebenezer

Pages: 1 –19

[In December 2013, after news broke that Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and African National Congress (ANC) leader had passed on, something interesting, though not entirely unfamiliar, happened. Within the continent, major commentators and politicians eulogized the departed...
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Nelson Mandela and the Politics of Life

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Pages: 23 –47

[The idea of politics of life is well-articulated by the Latin American philosopher and historian Enrique Dussel in his Twenty Theses on Politics (2008). In this work, the politics of liberation is understood as “politics of life with others and for others” (Mendieta 2008: viii). It is a politics...
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Obafemi Awolowo: Knowledge, Leadership, Governance

Táíwò, Olú́fẹ́mi

Pages: 49 –71

[Something significant happened in the summer of 2013 in Ikogosi-Ekiti, Nigeria. A state government, Ekiti, at the suggestion and under the direction of two gifted Nigerian scholars who ply our common trade in a land that knows the value and celebrates the life of the mind, spent a considerable...
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Julius Nyerere: Leadership Insights for Contemporary Challenges

Zalanga, Samuel

Pages: 73 –93

[The contemporary literature on leadership is replete with references to contextual factors that shape leadership, and contingency theories of leadership, which analyze how social, environmental and situational factors affect the leadership process. What they all, however, fail to do very well as...
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Jomo Kenyatta: War, Land, and Politics in Kenya

Vianni, Warris

Pages: 97 –117

[This chapter revisits a particular narrative that attends upon the reputation of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first prime minister and president. It recounts Kenyatta’s relationship with Mau Mau in his refusal to yield to their claim for land as recognition and reward for hastening the end of colonial...
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Leadership, Nation, and Subjectivity in Cameroon: Ahidjo’s “Citizenization” and Biya’s “Autochthonization” in Comparative Perspectives

Ndjio, Basile

Pages: 119 –146

[In the past, I was told that I was a citoyen camerounais (Cameroonian citizen), but now I am considered an originaire de l’Ouest-Cameroun (fellow from the western region of Cameroon). Who knows, tomorrow I would probably be viewed as a foreigner in my own country—An informant in Douala, November...
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Factionalism and Robert Mugabe’s Leadership in Zimbabwe

Msindo, Enocent

Pages: 147 –172

[In the 1980s, Robert Mugabe was seen as an icon in Zimbabwe and internationally. By the 1990s, voices of dissent against his leadership were beginning to emerge, together with fractures in his party. Since the late 1990s, however, opposition has grown with the formation of the Movement for...
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Ahmadu Bello and the Challenges of Nation-Building in Nigeria

Gambari, Ibrahim

Pages: 173 –193

[In many ways, the structural constraints and opportunities of the peculiar trajectories of what became the colony of Northern Nigeria and eventually the federation of Nigeria determined and largely transformed the personal and political agency of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the first and only premier of...
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The Evolution of Insurgent Leadership in Africa

Reno, William

Pages: 197 –210

[Most African insurgencies from the 1960s through the 1980s featured strong leaders who articulated broad programs of political and social change. Mozambique’s Eduardo Mondlane, Guinea-Bissau’s Amilcar Cabral, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni led highly organized insurgencies that presented visions...
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Democratic Leadership, Religious Values, and Social Justice: Examining the Ethical Dimensions of Anti-Gay Legislation in Africa

Ilesanmi, Simeon O.

Pages: 211 –234

[Songs of lament and frustration pervade the political landscape of many African countries. They signal disappointment with apparently indifferent political institutions. Ironically, this sense of melancholy, economic insecurity, and existential despair has heightened since the heralded return of...

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