State constitutions and governments without essence in post-independence Africa: governance along a failure-success continuum with illustrations from Benin, Cameroon and the DRC
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST O F FIGURES AND TABLES XXI
INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENCE O F FAILED GOVERNMENTS AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT
IN AFRICA 1
CHAPTER ONE: SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES AND THE RAISON D'ETRE OF
GOVERNMENTS 15
1. SOCIAL CONTRACTS: THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE 18
1.1 JOHN LOCKE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT O F GOVERNMENT 21
1.2 CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU AND THE FURTHER DIVISION O F POWER 24
1.3 ROUSSEAU: PARTICIPATION, SOVEREIGNTY AND COMMON WILL 26
1.4 POLITICAL POWER, AUTHORITY AND DEMOCRATISATION: A BRIEF ANALYSIS 28
2. STATES AND GOVERNMENTS: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN AFRICA 34
2.1 PRESERVING LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY: SUCCESSFUL GOVERNANCE IN
AFRICA 38
2.2 POLITICS AND STATES WITHOUT STATESMEN: WORTHLESS AND HARMFUL
GOVERNMENT 45
3. . .AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FAILS? 50
CHAPTER TWO: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS SINCE INDEPENDENCE: THE FALSE
START AND GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS 55
1. FROM SUBJUGATION TO POST-INDEPENDENCE NATION AND STATE-BUILDING.
56
1.1 AFRICA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE AND THEN COLONISATION 58
1.2 INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE AND THE BIRTH O F NATIONS 61
1.3 THE CHALLENGES O F NATION-STATE BUILDING: THE BEGINNING O F FAILURE
65
1.4 THE REVERSE WAVE: CONSOLIDATING THE FAILURE COURSE 74
1.5 FAILURE AND EMERGENCE O F WORTHLESS AND HARMFUL POLITIES 81
1.6 THE MALAPROPOS O F THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN AFRICA 85
2. GOVERNANCE ALONG A SUCCESS-FAILURE CONTINUUM 87
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TABLE O F CONTENTS
2.1 THE SUCCESS-FAILURE CONTINUUM: VARIABLES AND INDICATORS 90
2.2 THE SUCCESS STORY: BENIN'S EXAMPLE 97
2.3 MIDDLING PERFORMERS: CAMEROON'S EXAMPLE 99
2.4 THE UNSUCCESSFUL CASES: DRC EXAMPLE 100
CHAPTER THREE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING AFRICAN
POLITICS 103
1. NATIONAL FACTORS 105
1.1 ETHNIC DIVISIONS, TRIBALISM AND NEO-PATRIMONIALISM 106
1.2 AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FLAWS AND FALLIBILITY 110
1.3 TRADITIONAL VERSUS CIVIL SOCIETIES: BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN
POLITY 116
1.4 POLITICAL CULTURE/MENTALITY: IN NEED O F POLITICAL SOCIALISATION 124
2. INTERNATIONAL FACTORS 127
2.1 COLONIAL IMPACT AND LEGACY 128
2.2 NEO-COLONIALISM: CLIENTS AND EUROPEAN PATRONS 133
2.3 ECONOMIC INTEREST, CONDITIONED AID, COLD WAR AND CONSEQUENCES. 135
3. AFRICA AND CONTINENTAL GOVERNANCE 141
3.1 THE OAU AND GOVERNANCE IN POST-INDEPENDENT AFRICA 143
3.2 FROM OUA TO AU: NEPAD AND APRM: CAN THE AU SUCCEED WHERE OUA FAILED?
145
CHAPTER FOUR: EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES: BENIN, CAMEROON AND DRC 151
1. REPUBLIC O F BENIN 155
1.1 INDEPENDENCE, STATE CONSTITUTION AND FAILURES 156
1.2 THE REVERSE WAVE AND FAILED GOVERNANCE 159
1.3 THE SECOND LIBERATION AND THE SUCCESS O F RE-CONSTITUTION 160
1.4 RE-CONSTITUTION, SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION 163
2. (FEDERAL/UNITED) REPUBLIC O F CAMEROON 165
2.2 THE REVERSE WAVE AND FAILED GOVERNANCE 171
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TABLE O F CONTENTS XIX
2.3 THE SECOND LIBERATION: NON-RECONSTITUTION AND TRANSITION FAILURE 175
2.4 THE DYNAMICS O F FAILURES: ETHNIC DIVISIONS, CLIENTELISM AND THE
ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM 179
2.4 SUCCESS, A FARFETCHED DREAM? 184
3. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC O F CONGO (DRC) 188
3.1 INDEPENDENCE, STATE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT FAILURES 190
3.2 THE REVERSE WAVE, HARMFUL GOVERNMENT AND KLEPTOCRACY 192
3.3 THE SECOND LIBERATION: NON-RECONSTITUTION AND FAILED TRANSITION 193
3.4 STILL ANOTHER ATTEMPT AND A RE-CONSTITUTION ATTEMPT! 196
4. SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE CASE STUDY COUNTRIES 198
5. LESSONS FROM CASE STUDY COUNTRIES 203
CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSIONS, PROSPECTS, AND PROPOSITIONS 207
1. CONCLUDING REMARKS 209
2. THE DEMOCRACY ADVOCACY, PROPOSITIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 218
APPENDICES 229
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