African Politics

The ANC Underground in South Africa, 1950-1976
Raymond Suttner

It is widely assumed that the African National Congress essentially disappeared from South Africa after its banning in 1960 and the imprisonment of its leaders, until public support for it    More >

Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education
Satu Riutta

Satu Riutta asks whether civic education initiatives—to which huge sums of donor funds and effort are devoted annually—actually promote political participation among the rural    More >

Security Cooperation in Africa: A Reappraisal
Benedikt Franke

In the midst of the atrocities reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the seemingly constant strife in the Horn of Africa, and the ongoing violence in Darfur, how do we make sense of    More >

China's New Role in Africa
Ian Taylor

Ian Taylor explores the nature and implications of China's burgeoning role in Africa, arguing that Beijing is using Africa not only as a source of needed raw materials and potential new    More >

Qaddafi's Libya in World Politics
Yehudit Ronen

Libya's enigmatic Muammar Qaddafi demonstrated a perhaps unprecedented capacity for reinvention and survival, particularly in the realm of foreign policy. Yehudit Ronen traces    More >

No-Party Democracy? Ugandan Politics in Comparative Perspective
Giovanni Carbone

Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? Giovanni Carbone examines the politics of Museveni’s    More >

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan
Makau Mutua

Tracing the trajectory of postcolonial politics, Makau Mutua maps the political forces that have shaped contemporary Kenya. He also critically explores efforts on the part of both civil    More >

The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo
John F. Clark

Why did the democratic experiment launched in the Republic of Congo in 1991 fail so dramatically in 1997? Why has it not been seriously resumed since then? In tackling these complex    More >

African Guerrillas: Raging Against the Machine
Morten Bøås and Kevin C. Dunn, editors

At the center of many of Africa's violent conflicts are movements that do not seem to fit any established theories of armed resistance. African Guerrillas offers new models for    More >

Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform
Scott D. Taylor

Why are productive, development-supporting relations between business and government still so rare in Africa? Scott Taylor addresses this question, examining state-business coalitions as    More >

Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed
William F.S. Miles, editor

Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable    More >

Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace
Ruth Iyob and Gilbert M. Khadiagala

The formal division in 2011 of Africa's largest state into two new states—Sudan (the Republic of the Sudan) and South Sudan (the Republic of South Sudan)—was the result of    More >

Women in African Parliaments
Gretchen Bauer and Hannah E. Britton, editors

Working together across religious, ethnic, and class divisions, African women are helping to formulate legislation and foster democracies more inclusive of womens' interests. Women in    More >

Security Dynamics in Africa's Great Lakes Region
Gilbert M. Khadiagala, editor

The site of genocide in Rwanda, recurrent cycles of communal massacre, deepening poverty, state fragmentation, and massive displacement of civilians, is Africa's Great Lakes region    More >

Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion
Ernest J. Wilson III and Kelvin R. Wong, editors

Why do national patterns of Internet expansion differ so greatly throughout Africa? To what extent do politics trump technology? Who are the "information champions" in the various    More >

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