Actors in Contemporary African Politics, Paperback by Klute, Georg (EDT); Skalnik, Peter (EDT), ISBN 3643904436, ISBN-13 9783643904430, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

Anthropologists and other social scientists identify various actors--living or dead, material or immaterial--that shape or contribute to African politics today. Their topics include African political actors in "ungoverned spaces:" towards a theory of heterarchy, the diaspora as actors in contemporary Nigerian politics, how civil society organizations in Africa can foster good governance, baraka as a basis of the authority of Muslim leaders in Senegal, socio-cultural factors and political leadership in Ghana, and local conflict and the weak state. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()