Author : Francis Adigwe
Publisher : Ibadan ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 1974, 1975 printing.
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780195752427
Author : Francis Adigwe
Publisher : Ibadan ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 1974, 1975 printing.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Areoye Oyebola
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Alan Bryden
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1909188689
Many efforts have been undertaken to address dysfunctional security sector governance in West Africa. However, security sector reform (SSR) has fallen short of radical – transformational – change to the fundamental structures of power and governance in the region. Looking more closely at specific examples of SSR in six West African countries, Learning from West African Experiences in Security Sector Governance explores both progress and reversals in efforts by national stakeholders and their international partners to positively influence security sector governance dynamics. Written by eminent national experts based on their personal experiences of these reform contexts, this study offers new insights and practical lessons that should inform processes to improve democratic security sector governance in West Africa and beyond.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2023
Category :
ISBN : 9781136965258
First published in 1920, this resource was intended as a guide to the history and activities of a variety of commercial enterprises in the British West African colonies. It also reveals the characters and backgrounds of personalities in government, business and the professions.
Author : Emmanuel Balogun
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429791844
This book examines the role of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) practitioners in coordinating, creating, and managing regional governance practices in the areas of public health, peace and security, and microfinancial integration. Since 1975, there have been many failed and successful attempts at unconstitutional government changes in West Africa. During this same period, numerous instruments have been designed to promote peace and security in the region. This book examines the role of bureaucratic actors in the ECOWAS in harmonizing regional integration policy in West Africa. Using data from fieldwork in several countries in West Africa, Balogun observes how ECOWAS practitioners network and strategically engage regional stakeholders in health, peace and security, and finance as a means to deepen harmonization between ECOWAS Member States and build a connection with civil society. Balogun argues that the founding conditions of ECOWAS set the organization on an institutional path to adapt its approaches to regional governance. Region-Building in West Africa challenges the idea that self-interested leaders limit regional cooperation. The book also challenges the idea that the bureaucrats in the organization are glorified servants to their governments. Region-Building in West Africa instead focuses on the influence that bureaucrats have in shaping the international policy agenda of ECOWAS. This book will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners in Africa and beyond who want to better understand the inner workings of African regional organizations, and the processes that drive cooperation across West Africa.
Author : Brenda Chalfin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 18,87 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226100626
In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana’s Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the Customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform for the neoliberal establishment, making it an ideal site for Chalfin to explore why the restructuring of a state on the global periphery portends shifts that occur in all corners of the world. At once a foray into international political economy, politics, and political anthropology, Neoliberal Frontiers is an innovative interdisciplinary leap forward for ethnographic writing, as well as an eloquent addition to the literature on postcolonial Africa.
Author : Ian Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000076113
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west African) region, and a range of sectors from education, wildlife, sanitation, through to government procurement processes. The book is supported by a range of policy briefs and videos intended to be both practical and critically rigorous. It uses evidence sources such as evaluations, research synthesis and citizen engagement to show how these cases succeeded in informing policy and practice. The voices of policy makers are key to the book, ensuring that the examples deployed are useful to practitioners and researchers alike. This innovative book will be perfect for policy makers, practitioners in government and civil society, and researchers and academics with an interest in how evidence can be used to support policy making in Africa. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007043, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Author : Laing Gray Cowan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780231918503
Studies some of the units of local representative government in Southern Nigeria and the problems encountered in the integration of popularly elected bodies into communities where the residents were not prepared to accept their authority.
Author : William Tordoff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253215451
The author provides extra coverage of both North and South Africa and of such key issues as debt, the AIDS epidemic, the position of women and the politics of patronage."--BOOK JACKET.
