Introduction to African Politics
Publisher: Gabtony & Associates (Nig.) Ltd. in collaboration with Development Studies Research Group (DESREG)
Published: 1997, 3rd edition, 2007
Place of publication: Owerri, Nigeria
Language: eng
Description: Introduction to African Politics provides an ideal gateway for people interested in learning more about Africa and those desirous  of acquiring advanced knowledge on the continent. This third edition of the book is expanded, fully revised and updated. It is a contribution to the universal debate on Africa's political instability. The book reinstates its fundamental argument that the genesis of Africa's political and socio-economic problems is associated with the incursion of European settler societies and other adventurers and opportunists in the continent.
This edition places an accent on the political economy of Africa as a threshold of the continent's development. Its treatment of Africa's problems and prospects is presented in accessible concepts, cutting across regional boundaries, thus emphasizing the multidimensional and multifarious links existing between African nations.
This book is thematically organized, with individual chapters exploring issues such as early government and politics in Africa, impacts of European settler societies, colonization, pan-Africanism and nationalism, ethnic particularism and the rise of regional and tribal political parties, legitimacy, sovereignty, democracy and development.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Part 1 / 1; title: Chapter One / The African Continent: An Overview / 2; title: Chapter Two / Early Government and Politics in Africa / 12; title: Chapter Three / Africa's Pre-Colonial Institutions / 16; title: Chapter Four / An Aproach to Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Umunna Philosophy (by A.A. Oruebor) 23; title: Chapter Five / Origin of the Problems of African Politics / 30; title: Chapter Six / The Political and Socio-Cultural Realities of Selected Settler Socieities / 38; title: Part 2 / 62; title: Chapter Seven / The Partition of Africa / 62; title: Chapter Eight / Problems of Colonization / 72; title: Chapter Nine / Colonial Rule in Africa /  76; title: Chapter Ten / Understanding the Phenomenon of Colonialism / 103; title: Chapter Eleven / The Impact of Colonial Rule in Africa / 110; title: Chapter Twelve / The Occupation of Ethiopia / 124; title: Part 3 / 128; title: Chapter Thirteen / Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and the Struggle for Independence / 128; title: Chapter Fourteen / The Rise of Political Parties in Africa / 147; title: Part 4 / 155; title: Chapter Fifteen / Political Trends in Africa after Independence / 155; title: Chapter Sixteen / Problems of Political Succession in Africa / 171; title: Chapter Seventeen / Problems of Nation-Building in Africa / 178; title: Chapter Eighteen / NEPAD and Political Development in Africa / 187; title: Chapter Nineteen / The Political Economy of the African Union / 206; title: Chapter Twenty / African Politics in the New Millennium / 219; title: Conclusion / 226; title: Appendices / 233