Violence Political Culture Development In Africa

Download or read book Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa written by Preben Kaarsholm and published by James Currey (GB). This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the "failed" and "collapsed" state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complex historical processes underlying the political development of individual nation states. The chapters in this volume throw light on the ways in which violence, political culture, and development have interacted in recent African history.