Add to ORKGInternational audienceChallenges of governance facing a post-apartheid South Africa can more appropriately be understood in the contexts of state building and governance in Africa and other parts of the South. A gamut of literature on state formation in Africa has focused on the impact of colonial rule and the appropriation of that rule by postliberation African leaders, and the struggle for control over resources. There are, though, views that present the challenge from a predominantly geographical perspective. Such views are readily discernible from Herbst's (2000) argument that "the fundamental problem facing the state-builders in Africa - be they pre-colonial kings, colonial governors, or presidents in the independent era - has been to ...
For nearly four decades, African states have been buffeted by popular pressures to live up to the id...
government " as providing an increasingly widespread and important foundation for political rul...
The problem of weakness of state structures in the Sub-Saharan Africa results from international law...
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 19 August 1996Post colonial southern African states ...
It is a commonplace to say that the state has generally failed in post-colonial Africa, or at least ...
African economic development is stifled because most countries are notional states. The notional sta...
The process of gaining independence in Africa was accompanied by the intensified colonial liberation...
In the recent process of transition in Africa since the 1980s, the form of state rule has been chang...
The Africa in Focus series is an initiative of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) that creat...
Over the past two decades, African countries have experienced major political transitions that seeme...
Governance in post-colonial Africa has been challenging. Most of the nationalists and political elit...
Staaten sind trotz aller Krisen auch in afrikanischen Ländern jene politischen Institutionengefüge, ...
The social and economic successes of Asia have drawn global attention to the developmental state as ...
Colonial rule which lasted for over a century in some African countries had devastating consequences...
"Bad governance has often been identified as the explanans for the weakness and subsequent collapse ...
For nearly four decades, African states have been buffeted by popular pressures to live up to the id...
government " as providing an increasingly widespread and important foundation for political rul...
The problem of weakness of state structures in the Sub-Saharan Africa results from international law...
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 19 August 1996Post colonial southern African states ...
It is a commonplace to say that the state has generally failed in post-colonial Africa, or at least ...
African economic development is stifled because most countries are notional states. The notional sta...
The process of gaining independence in Africa was accompanied by the intensified colonial liberation...
In the recent process of transition in Africa since the 1980s, the form of state rule has been chang...
The Africa in Focus series is an initiative of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) that creat...
Over the past two decades, African countries have experienced major political transitions that seeme...
Governance in post-colonial Africa has been challenging. Most of the nationalists and political elit...
Staaten sind trotz aller Krisen auch in afrikanischen Ländern jene politischen Institutionengefüge, ...
The social and economic successes of Asia have drawn global attention to the developmental state as ...
Colonial rule which lasted for over a century in some African countries had devastating consequences...
"Bad governance has often been identified as the explanans for the weakness and subsequent collapse ...
For nearly four decades, African states have been buffeted by popular pressures to live up to the id...
government " as providing an increasingly widespread and important foundation for political rul...
The problem of weakness of state structures in the Sub-Saharan Africa results from international law...