La Culture administrative en Afriques : la construction historique des significations du «phénomène bureaucratique»

Public administration in Africa has so far been poorly studied, and generally treated with the utmost scientific disdain, by Africanists belonging to the realm of political science, who ignore the essentials of the seminal work produced in the administrative sciences, in sociology of organisation, and in the study of public management. However, putting to use this kind of analyses is the only way for interpretations of public administration in Africa to achieve a re-examination that permits to lay open the historical process of construction significations that has taken place, and thus to decodify the existence of dynamics of institutionalisation (expression of the states) and of unprecedented bureaucratic phenomena