The African exception
By: edited by Ulf Engel, Gorm Rye Olsen.
Contributors: Engel, Ulf.; Olsen, Gorm Rye.
Series: Contemporary perspectives on developing societies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Economic development -- Political aspects -- Africa.; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Description: "This volume debates whether knowledge of the new challenges facing Africa and guided interpretations of their nature will be crucial for linking the revised conventional wisdom of today and what might become tomorrow's new received wisdom." "The contributors explore the four key dimensions of the conventional wisdom: the exercise of power, agrarian change, economic fundamentals, and international development aid. New interpretations of the challenged wisdom and viable alternatives to mainstream representation are offered. The second section discusses five new challenges that Africa has to face in the first part of the 21st century: conflict prevention and peace-building, biodiversity, aids/HIV, economies of crime, and belief systems."

"The volume will be particularly suitable for graduate levels and above in African politics, sociology, conflict and peace studies, comparative politics and development studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Power and politics reconsidered / Patrick Chabal; title: Understanding public management through neopatrimonialism : a paradigm for all African seasons? / Ole Therkildsen; title: History, identity, collective action : difficulties of accountability / Tim Kelsall; title: The donors and the African state : how much has changed? / Nicolas van de Walle; title: 'Under construction' : governance in Africa's new violent social spaces / Ulf Engel and Andreas Mehler; title: State responses to the aids pandemic / Nana K. Poku and Jane Freedman; title: Entrepreneurial urban governance and development in Africa : challenges, opportunities and lessons from South Africa / Scarlett Cornelissen.