Rethinking Institutions, Processes and Development in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Aniche, Ernest; Falola, Toyin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

African scholarship concerning the nexus between institutions and development is still dominated by the economic perspective of development despite the emergence of the humanistic perspective of development. The humanistic perspective is a more embracing, encompassing, and comprehensive view of development than its economic counterpart and offers a better explanation of the African situation. It is essential to examine the relationships between democratic political institutions and human development. This collection examines democratic institutions and processes in post-independence Africa. The contributors examine the political institutional processes in post-colonial Africa, evaluating the workings of institutions such as education, bureaucracy, interest groups, trade unions, and problems of enforcements in Africa. It also discusses the relevance of creative arts for political socialization as well as the role effects of privatization on service delivery in contemporary African societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538151136
• Artikelnr.: 62672305

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker chair professor in the humanities and a distinguished teaching professor at The University of Texas at Austin. Ernest Toochi Aniche is lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Institutions and Development in Africa
Ernest Aniche and Toyin Falola
Part I: Institutions and Processes in Africa
1. Reflections on Powers of Trade Union Federations in Democracies: A
Comparative Discourse
Jerry Mmanoko Mathekga
2. The Question of Enforcement: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Social
Panopticism in Uganda
S.M. Rodriguez
3. The Nigerian Education, Industry and Bureaucracy: The Counsellor's
Perspective
Maduka, Ngozi Joy
4. Privatization of the Electric Power Sector and Service Delivery in Nigeria
Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada, Nneka Ifeoma Okafor and Christopher Ewuzie
Obianagwa
5. The Relevance of Creativity Economics of Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Art
on Political Socialization
Timothy Olusola Ogunfuwa
Part II: Institutions and Development Challenges in Africa
6. Historicizing Development and the Dilemma of Adopting Western Models in
Nigeria
Cinderella Temitope Ochu
7. Local Government-State Joint Account and Crisis of Grassroots Development
in Nigeria
Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada and Paul Hezekiah Omeh
8. Nigeria and the Neo-colonial Dilemma: Rethinking the Challenge of an
Unfinished Business
Obinna Innocent Ihunna
9. Urban Redevelopment as Metaphor for Gentrification in the Making of a
Mega-City: The Forced Displacement of Otodo Gbame/Ebute Ikate Community,
Lagos State
Alabi Bamidele
10. Railway and the Transformation and Modernization of Kafanchan, 1927-1993
Gaius Jatau