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Pp. 1-62. 2. Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, "Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Judicial in Statehood," World Politics 35, no. 1 (1982): 1-25, offer external explanations for this durability. , The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Boulder: Westview Press, 1988). 3. Roger Charlton, "Dehomogenising the Study of African Politics-The Case of Inter-State Influence on Regime Formation and Change," Plural Societies 14, no. 1/2 (1983): 32-48. 4. Richard Hodder-Williams, An Introduction to the Politics of Tropical Africa (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), is insistent on this point.
Economic scarcity, fragile institutions, ambiguous power networks, structural dependence, and gross inequalities have severely circumscribed the range of maneuverability within the African political domain. Nevertheless, political occurrences reflect what people choose to do in a world not of their own making. They also shed light on the persistent search for relevant and effective ways of preserving human dignity and advancing the quest for meaningful development. Political interaction thus highlights the challenge inherent in the African world at the beginning of the twenty-first century: the need to exercise imagination and ingenuity in unraveling priorities and designing options for societies under pressure.
Mazrui, The African Condition: A Political Diagnosis (London: Cambridge University Press, 1980). 28. Adrian Leftwich, Redefining Politics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983), pp. 26-27. Also see Richard A. Higgott, "From Modernization Theory to Public Policy: Continuity and Change in the Political Science of Political Development," Studies in Cooperative International Development 5, no. 4 (1987): pp. 26-57. Part I THE STRUCTURES OF POLITICS 2 State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena In the first part of this book we examine the types of organizations devised by Africans at various levels to mobilize themselves, their allies, and their resources to deal with their constantly changing surroundings, and we introduce the basic concepts of contemporary African politics: state, social groups, ethnicity, and class.