Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index.
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Introduction: The Rationale for a New Theory of the African State; Theories of the African State: Modernization, Dependency, and Statist; Reconstructionist Theories of the African State; Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions; The African Colonial and Post-Colonial State; Genocide: African Natural Resources and the West; Africa in the World Economy: Globalization and Re-Colonization; The Congo State in Historical Perspective I: Indigenous Congolese Political Systems and Institutions; The Congo State in Historical Perspective II: From the Congo Free State to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; South Africa: Indigenous African Political Institutions and the Foreign Encounter; South Africa: Indigenous African Political Institutions; South Africa: Apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC), and Public Service Delivery by the ANC Government, 1948-2006; Fundi Wa Afrika: A New Paradigm of the African State; Conclusion: Toward a Federation of African States.
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"The authors introduce a new paradigm to study the African state, Fundi wa Afrika. According to this paradigm, the current African predicament may be explained by the systematic destruction of African states and the dispossetion, exploitation, and marginalization of African people through successive historical processes - the trans-Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism, and globalization. In this book, the authors argue that a new, viable, and modern African state based on the five political entities - the Federation of African States - should be built on the functional remnants of indiginous African political systems and institutions and based on African values, traditions, and culture."--Jacket.