Table of Contents

"Bula Matari" and the contemporary African crisis; on the state; the nature and genesis of the colonial state; constructing "Bula Matari"; the colonial state institutionalized; toward African independence; the ambiguous challenge of civil society; the imperial legacy and state traditions; the afterlife of the African colonial state - comparative reflections.

Promotional Information

Winner of the 1995 Gregory Luebbert Book Award; Winner of the 1994 Best Book Award for comparative politics given by the American Political Science Association.

About the Author

Crawford Young is Rupert Emerson and John Bascom Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also author of Ideology and Development in Africa, published by Yale University Press.