Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination inAfrica provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamicprocesses of state-making in Africa. * Features a conceptual framework which provides a method foranalysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation ofstatehood in contemporary Africa * Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resourcesand repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, andwhat these processes are all about * Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical andanalytical insights into these processes in eight different countrystudies in Africa * Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood inAfrica