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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He was most recently a Visiting Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Nigeria. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Klappentext This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called 'big men' across Africa's fifty-four states. Zusammenfassung This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Kenneth E. Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola Section A: Citizens, Citizenship, and State-Society Relations Chapter 1: The Postcolonial African State and its Citizens - Kenneth E. Kalu Chapter 2: Africa's "Big Men" and the African State - Kenneth E. Kalu Chapter 3: Women, Inclusive Citizenship and the African State - Cheryl O'Brien and Adryan Wallace Chapter 4: Women's Political Empowerment and the Politics of Citizenship in Nigeria and Tanzania - Olajide O. Akanji Chapter 5: Digital Citizenship in Africa's Fractured Social Order - Ogbonna Emmanuel Chijioke Section B: Civil Society, Identities, and Big Men Chapter 6: Civil Society and the African State - Alex Ng'oma Chapter 7: Youth and Big Men Politics - Ngozi Nwogwugwu Chapter 8: Culture and Religion in Africa: Social Transformation and Tools for Exploitation - Susan Kilonzo Chapter 9: Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal Politics in Africa - Abimbola Adunni Adelakun Chapter 10: Ethnic Identity Politics and the Sustenance of Africa's Predatory State - Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade Section C: Democratic Impact of Predatory State-Society Relations Chapter 11 : Accountability Theory and Democracy in Nigeria - Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Adigun Agbaje Chapter 12: State-Society Relations and Nature of Economic Growth in Africa - Samuel Zalanga Chapter 13: The Social Impact of Africa's Predatory State-Society Relations - Samuel Oloruntoba Chapter 14: Africa's "Big Men" in the Continent's Democratic Experiments - Toochi Aniche ...
