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Social Sciences Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 List of tables 9 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction: state, civil society and external interests 12 History: Africa's pre-colonial and colonial inheritance 18 Ideology: nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism 41 Ethnicity: ethnic groups, 'tribes', and political identity 68 Social class: the search for class politics in Africa 85 Legitimacy: neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state 110 Coercion: military intervention in African politics 132 Sovereignty: external influences on African politics 152 Sovereignty again: neo-colonialism, structural adjustment, and Africa's political economy 176 Authority: the crises of accumulation, governance and state collapse 200 Democracy: re-legitimising the African state? 226 Conclusions: state and civil society in post-colonial Africa 253 Appendix: multi-party legislative and presidential elections in Africa, independence to 1999 258 Notes 266 Index 279

Author

Alex Thomson

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EN

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2026-03-13