A nexus between power, politics and the military Literature is awash with research on the militarisation of the state, especially in West Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, where military involvement in...
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A paradigm shift from false expectations of reform in a securocrat state, to a conference to resolve it.
The crisis in Zimbabwe: A paradigm shift ABSTRACT The discussion on the crisis in Zimbabwe has over the years been premised on the false expectation that a state increasingly based and surviving on the strength of a...
A revolution of the aspiring bourgeoisie
African communism: a pragmatic approach Communism was not a decisive force anywhere in Africa until the cold war made the continent a priority for the Soviet Union A high level of industrialisation is, according to...
Military nightmares, martial fantasies
Nigeria: 20 years of democracy Political scientists agree that unfettered access to oil cash was a key factor in the character and duration of military rule in Nigeria Until the return to civil rule in 1999, the...
Selfish luxury, selfish greed
Despite presiding over one of Africa’s richest countries, Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogois the very model of an African dictator Wilson Johwa Equatorial Guinea’s president, Teodoro Obiang...
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