Table of Contents:
- Introduction: state, civil society and external interests
- History: Africa's pre-colonial and colonial inheritance
- Ideology: nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism
- Ethnicity and religion: 'tribes', gods and political identity
- Social class: the search for class politics in Africa
- Legitimacy: neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state
- Coercion: military intervention in African politics
- Sovereignty I: external influences on African politics
- Sovereignty II: neo-colonialism, structural adjustment and Africa's political economy
- Authority: the crises of accumulation, governance and state collapse
- Democracy: re-legitimising the African state?
- Conclusions: state and civil society in post-colonial Africa
- Appendix: a guide to African politics resources on the internet.