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This collection examines democratic institutions and processes in post-independence Africa.
List of contents
Introduction: Institutions and Development in Africa
Ernest Aniche and Toyin Falola
Part I: Institutions and Processes in Africa
Reflections on Powers of Trade Union Federations in Democracies: A Comparative Discourse Jerry Mmanoko Mathekga
The Question of Enforcement: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Social Panopticism in Uganda S.M. Rodriguez
The Nigerian Education, Industry and Bureaucracy: The Counsellor's Perspective Maduka, Ngozi Joy
Privatization of the Electric Power Sector and Service Delivery in Nigeria Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada, Nneka Ifeoma Okafor and Christopher Ewuzie Obianagwa
The Relevance of Creativity Economics of Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Art on Political SocializationTimothy Olusola Ogunfuwa
Part II: Institutions and Development Challenges in Africa
Historicizing Development and the Dilemma of Adopting Western Models in Nigeria Cinderella Temitope Ochu
Local Government-State Joint Account and Crisis of Grassroots Development in Nigeria Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada and Paul Hezekiah Omeh
Nigeria and the Neo-colonial Dilemma: Rethinking the Challenge of an Unfinished Business Obinna Innocent Ihunna
Urban Redevelopment as Metaphor for Gentrification in the Making of a Mega-City: The Forced Displacement of Otodo Gbame/Ebute Ikate Community, Lagos State Alabi Bamidele
Railway and the Transformation and Modernization of Kafanchan, 1927-1993 Gaius Jatau
About the author
Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker chair professor in the humanities and a distinguished teaching professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Ernest Toochi Aniche is lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria.
Summary
This book examines nature and character of institutions and development in Africa.
