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Introduction

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 1 –9

[Africa is a very large continent (Fig. 1.1). Its population is diverse in terms of culture, class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and race. African societies differ in their development. In some regions (e.g., West Africa), indigenous institutions have survived in some form longer than in others...

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Theories of the African State

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 11 –22

[The basic premise of modernization theory is that african societies are “in the process of becoming modern rational entities in which efficiency and scientific logic replace traditional values and belief systems.”1 Since 1960, development in African countries has followed the modernization path....

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Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 23 –47

[African political systems and institutions were traditionally based on kinship and on lineage (that is, on common ancestry), sanctioned by a founding myth. First, they were based on an elaborate system of checks and balances. Second, political succession was carefully institutionalized in such a...

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The African Colonial and Postcolonial States

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 49 –62

[From the sixteenth century onward, in spite of the good diplomatic and commercial relations that Europe and Africa enjoyed, Europeans chose to create a new image of Africa and Africans. Such an image allowed Europeans to exploit African labor and resources. Explorers, geographers, scientists,...

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Genocide

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 63 –83

[With a surface area of 11,700,000 square miles and a population currently estimated at 800 million (resulting in an average density of population of 14.6 PER SQUARE MILE) spread over fifty-four countries, it can hardly be said that Africa is overpopulated.1 We argue that from the trans-Atlantic...

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Africa in the World Economy

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 85 –102

[In the post-september 11, 2001 world, key U.S. foreign policy decision makers have characterized African oil resources as strategically essential to U.S. national interests. In 2003, sub-Saharan Africa already provided 14.5 percent of U.S. oil requirements; in 2015, that region will supply at...

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The Congo State in Historical Perspective I

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 103 –118

[Starting around 1000 BCE and lasting well into the first millennium AD, Congo’s ancient history was marked by several migratory waves, first of Bantu-speaking peoples coming from the Benue River area (present day Nigeria), then of Sudanic people coming from the Darfur and Kordofan regions,...

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The Congo State in Historical Perspective II

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 119 –137

[In september 1876, in brussels, lÉopold II, king of the belgians, Convened a geographical conference of leading explorers of Africa and founded the Association Internationale Africaine (International African Association [AIA]) “for the avowed purpose of promoting the civilization and commerce of...

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South Africa

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 139 –161

[Cattle Herders Who Called Themselves KHOIKHOIN, “Men of Men,” were the indigenous inhabitants of the southwestern areas of present day South Africa. Based on oral tradition, the Khoikhoin believed that their ancestors traveled with their faces toward the setting sun until they reached the “great...

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South Africa

Muiu, Mueni wa; Martin, Guy

Pages: 163 –189

[In South Africa, The Political System is Firmly and Exclusively Controlled by the middle class, a small political and business elite whose racial composition has changed over time. Following the transition from apartheid to majority rule in 1994, political power has been transferred from the...

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