Regime change and succession politics in Africa [electronic resource] : five decades of misrule / edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi and Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-261) and index.

1. Regime change and succession politics in Africa : introduction / Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi and Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o -- 2. Political leadership and development in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania / Fredrick O. Wanyama -- 3. Ethnicity and regime change in Ethiopia / Jan Zãaahoâerãaik -- 4. Beyond dictatorship in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Claver Lumana Pashi -- 5. The trajectory of iniquitous dictatorship in Zimbabwe : Implications for democratization in southern Africa and beyond / Moses Tofa -- 6. Regime dynamics and democratic consolidation in Lesotho / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi -- 7. Democratic governance and human security in Africa : discourse on the Fourth Republic in Nigeria / Samuel O. Oloruntoba -- 8. Democratization and the politics of self-succession in Nigeria / Dele Ashiru -- 9. Politics of change : the notion of "giving" and feminist struggles in Uganda / Caroline Tushabe -- 10. The quest for gender parity in southern African politics / Bertha Z. Osei-Hwedie -- 11. Regime change, succession politics, and the language question / Ann Albuyeh -- 12. The power of language and the politics of regime change in Africa / Kenneth Inyani Simala -- 13. Political imagination and the battle of discourses in Africa : Notes on Africa, I will fleece you (1992), Tears of the sun (2003), and Beyond the gates (2006) / Olivier J. Tchouaffe -- 14. "Monopoly politikos" : an account of a de facto one-party state and lack of regime change in Botswana / Dithapelo Lefoko Keorapetse.

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