Blind spots in analyzing Africa's place in world politics

Global Governance

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-417

  Taylor, Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 11144264570     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01004003     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. See Ibbo Mandaza and Dani Nabudere, Pan-Africanism and Integration in Africa (Harare: SAPES, 2002); Guy Martin, Africa in World Politics: A Pan-African Perspective (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002); and Bade Onimode, African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century: Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in Honour of Adehayo Adedeji at Seventy (London: Zed Books, 2004).
2. See Ibbo Mandaza and Dani Nabudere, Pan-Africanism and Integration in Africa (Harare: SAPES, 2002); Guy Martin, Africa in World Politics: A Pan-African Perspective (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002); and Bade Onimode, African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century: Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in Honour of Adehayo Adedeji at Seventy (London: Zed Books, 2004).
3. See Ibbo Mandaza and Dani Nabudere, Pan-Africanism and Integration in Africa (Harare: SAPES, 2002); Guy Martin, Africa in World Politics: A Pan-African Perspective (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002); and Bade Onimode, African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century: Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in Honour of Adehayo Adedeji at Seventy (London: Zed Books, 2004).
4. For an exception, see Nicolas Van de Walle, African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
5. T. Nguema, "Laying the Foundations for Prosperity," interview with President Teodro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, African Business, no. 298 (May 2004): 41. Nguema deposed (and killed) his uncle in a coup d'état in 1979, officially declared himself president, and currently leads one of the most corrupt and oppressive states in the world.
6. Ian Taylor and Paul Williams, eds., Africa in International Politics: External Involvement on the Continent (London: Routledge, 2004).
7. Van de Walle, African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999, p. 121.
8. Ibid, p. 51.
9. For an overview of neopatrimonialism, see Michael Bratton and Nicolas Van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
10. K. Omolo, "Political Ethnicity in the Democratization Process in Kenya," African Studies 61, no. 2 (2002): 219-220.
11. R. Kamidza, K. Matlosa, and A. Mwanza, "The Role of the State in Development in the SADC Region: Does NEPAD Provide a New Paradigm?" Paper prepared for Third World Network (TWN)/Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), "Africa and Development Challenges of the New Millennium," Accra, Ghana, 23-26 April 2002.
12. Quoted in the Johannesburg Mail and Guardian, 12 July 2002.
13. Peter Schraeder, "Elites as Facilitators or Impediments to Political Development? Some Lessons from the 'Third Wave' of Democratization in Africa," Journal of Developing Areas 29, no. 1 (1994): 85.
14. Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1981).
15. Zaki Ergas, "In Search of Development in Africa," in Zaki Ergas, ed., The African State in Transition (London: Macmillan, 1987), p. 309.