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Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the present with particular focus on their destruction through successive exogenous processes including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism or globalization.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Credits
- Introduction: The Rationale for a New Theory of the African State
- 1 Theories of the African State: From Modernization to Reconstructionist
- 2 Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions
- 3 The African Colonial and Postcolonial States
- 4 Genocide: African Natural Resources and the West
- 5 Africa in the World Economy: Hegemony, Globalization, and Recolonization
- 6 The Congo State in Historical Perspective I: Indigenous Congolese Political Systems and Institutions
- 7 The Congo State in Historical Perspective II: From the Congo Free State to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 8 South Africa: African Indigenous Political Institutions and the Foreign Encounter
- 9 South Africa: Apartheid, African Indigenous Institutions, and the ANC, 1948–2007
- 10 A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika
- Conclusion: Toward a Federation of African States (FAS)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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