Table of Contents

Preface Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. Triple Helix: State, Class, and Ethnicity in Africa 3. The State as Ear: Information, Coercion, and the Political Police 4. The State as Bandit: Armed Forces, Coercive Force 5. The State as Family, Mobutu as Father: Political Imagery 6. The Insecure State, I: Resistance Within--The Magistrature 7. The Insecure State, II: Resistance Without--Religious Groups 8. The Dialectics of Oppression Notes Bibliography Index