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The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absol... more The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absolute appropriations of state spaces. It codifies commonalities across a universe of 56 postcolonial entities and their limited panoply of patrimonial governance paradigms. African states are differentiated by their different trajectories to statehood, their colonial experiences, and the character of revolutionary struggles. The neo-colonial traditions bequeathed to them, the differential salience of imposed affinities and institutions, and their heterogeneous internal constructions all influence the internal dynamics and specificities of the one-man state or one party state. After the Cold War neo-patrimonial governance emerged in peculiar constitutional systems in the post-one-man state and post-one-party state. Post-revolutionary states have suffered the same fate.
African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2012
History Compass, Feb 1, 2021
Is pan‐Africanism relevant today? Against the background of challenges to its continued relevance... more Is pan‐Africanism relevant today? Against the background of challenges to its continued relevance through assaults on its fundamental tenets, this intervention reaffirms the integrity and undiminished salience of pan‐Africanism as a philosophy of radical action for emancipation of black humanity. Pan‐Africanism represents the complexities of black political and intellectual thought over 200 years. Politically inspired conceptual deflections of the authentic tenets of pan‐Africanism threaten the essences of the ancient struggle of black humanity as one people for holistic emancipation. As configured, Africa is confronted with widespread foreign security deployments on its soil that it is unable to check. There is internal connivance in the new scramble to partition the continent. Meeting the challenges implied by the axiomatic commonality of identity, inexorable destiny, and the singularity of the ultimate interest of black humanity has remained the enduring challenge of pan‐Africanism. In the face of this challenge have emerged conceptual deflections to provide respectability to attempts to diminish the depth and scope of pan‐Africanism. The criticality of the continued integrity of the precepts of pan‐Africanism is imperative because intellectual traditions matter in shaping organizing principles directing any struggle. Finally, it is affirmed that the greatest disincentive to pan‐African consolidation is the reality of African statehood as private enterprises of a few political‐entrepreneurial “poliprenuer” families. The way forward is to consolidate Africa into a continental republic.
Abstract: Traditional state-centric approaches to dealing with important developments have become... more Abstract: Traditional state-centric approaches to dealing with important developments have become obsolete. New conceptual tools and approaches are called for to grapple with the reality of proto states and their leadership in the emerged political landscape
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Aug 19, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a global ubiquity to accepting the concept of civil... more Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a global ubiquity to accepting the concept of civil society among researchers and activists, and a widespread assumption among many policy makers in different parts of the world of its global relevance to strengthening development and democracy.1 This, in many ways, is understandable. Yet, the pervasiveness notwithstanding, the very concept of civil society, its antecedents and the implications thereof, its scope, relevance, and utility, have generated significant discursive controversies, especially in relation to the internal processes of, and in the environment of, the postcolonial African state. Does civil society in a multinational postcolonial state such as Nigeria promote state building and national development or is it an impediment that renders the state fragile? Given the structural complexity and the double instrumental character of the postcolonial state,2 an interrogation of the concept of civil society in the context of, and in defining the locus of conventional civil society organizations (CSOs) vis-a-vis other competing associations in the postcolonial state setting, is a compelling imperative. These clarifications are keys to unraveling how the structure of society and its configuration as civil society facilitate or impede the process of state and nation building. What is the nexus between the structure and character of civil society and the strengthening or “fragilizing” of an African postcolonial state such as Nigeria?
Abstract: Peace engineering is serious political economy. It consolidates the dominant and subord... more Abstract: Peace engineering is serious political economy. It consolidates the dominant and subordinate relations between the developed and underdeveloped universes. The issue has acquired critical salience since the end of the cold war created the danger that the ability of the peoples of Africa to determine their destiny would be severely compromised and undermined
Abstract: Emancipation of a people entails the simple task of self-validating the integrity of it... more Abstract: Emancipation of a people entails the simple task of self-validating the integrity of its own identity against the odds. In this, African societies would seem to have failed
Abstract: The use of terror, including the slaughtering of infidels and apostates, kidnappings of... more Abstract: The use of terror, including the slaughtering of infidels and apostates, kidnappings of civilians and mass abductions, forced marriages and gang rapes of girls and women, is an expression of deeply held contempt for the extant social order
Abstract: The real challenge is whether this putative new order has the motive force to galvanise... more Abstract: The real challenge is whether this putative new order has the motive force to galvanise the necessary popular support for this more ethically grounded democratic dispensation in Nigeria’s public life
Abstract: The direction of Nigeria/South Africa relations can be better understood in terms of an... more Abstract: The direction of Nigeria/South Africa relations can be better understood in terms of an evolved but nuanced struggle for preponderant influence on the continent by these two major pivots of the emerged post-Cold War constellation of forces in Africa
Abstract: Corruption is clearly associated with the power calculus in state spaces and societies ... more Abstract: Corruption is clearly associated with the power calculus in state spaces and societies floundering with no validating principles. It is what defines who is in and who is out. He who dares wins
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Abstract: The African Renaissance seeks to repudiate the principal American and Euro-centric idea... more Abstract: The African Renaissance seeks to repudiate the principal American and Euro-centric ideational structures that constitute the foundations of the dominant order that has always defined the peripheral locus and irrelevance of the black world in the universe
Abstract: People who come because they think that Europe is a prosperous continent… must be escor... more Abstract: People who come because they think that Europe is a prosperous continent… must be escorted back, that’s the rule. Francoise Hollande, President of France, on African and Middle Eastern immigrants to Europe
The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absol... more The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absolute appropriations of state spaces. It codifies commonalities across a universe of 56 postcolonial entities and their limited panoply of patrimonial governance paradigms. African states are differentiated by their different trajectories to statehood, their colonial experiences, and the character of revolutionary struggles. The neo-colonial traditions bequeathed to them, the differential salience of imposed affinities and institutions, and their heterogeneous internal constructions all influence the internal dynamics and specificities of the one-man state or one party state. After the Cold War neo-patrimonial governance emerged in peculiar constitutional systems in the post-one-man state and post-one-party state. Post-revolutionary states have suffered the same fate.
African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2012
Contesting the Nigerian State, 2013
The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absol... more The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absolute appropriations of state spaces. It codifies commonalities across a universe of 56 postcolonial entities and their limited panoply of patrimonial governance paradigms. African states are differentiated by their different trajectories to statehood, their colonial experiences, and the character of revolutionary struggles. The neo-colonial traditions bequeathed to them, the differential salience of imposed affinities and institutions, and their heterogeneous internal constructions all influence the internal dynamics and specificities of the one-man state or one party state. After the Cold War neo-patrimonial governance emerged in peculiar constitutional systems in the post-one-man state and post-one-party state. Post-revolutionary states have suffered the same fate.
African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2012
History Compass, Feb 1, 2021
Is pan‐Africanism relevant today? Against the background of challenges to its continued relevance... more Is pan‐Africanism relevant today? Against the background of challenges to its continued relevance through assaults on its fundamental tenets, this intervention reaffirms the integrity and undiminished salience of pan‐Africanism as a philosophy of radical action for emancipation of black humanity. Pan‐Africanism represents the complexities of black political and intellectual thought over 200 years. Politically inspired conceptual deflections of the authentic tenets of pan‐Africanism threaten the essences of the ancient struggle of black humanity as one people for holistic emancipation. As configured, Africa is confronted with widespread foreign security deployments on its soil that it is unable to check. There is internal connivance in the new scramble to partition the continent. Meeting the challenges implied by the axiomatic commonality of identity, inexorable destiny, and the singularity of the ultimate interest of black humanity has remained the enduring challenge of pan‐Africanism. In the face of this challenge have emerged conceptual deflections to provide respectability to attempts to diminish the depth and scope of pan‐Africanism. The criticality of the continued integrity of the precepts of pan‐Africanism is imperative because intellectual traditions matter in shaping organizing principles directing any struggle. Finally, it is affirmed that the greatest disincentive to pan‐African consolidation is the reality of African statehood as private enterprises of a few political‐entrepreneurial “poliprenuer” families. The way forward is to consolidate Africa into a continental republic.
Abstract: Traditional state-centric approaches to dealing with important developments have become... more Abstract: Traditional state-centric approaches to dealing with important developments have become obsolete. New conceptual tools and approaches are called for to grapple with the reality of proto states and their leadership in the emerged political landscape
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Aug 19, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a global ubiquity to accepting the concept of civil... more Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a global ubiquity to accepting the concept of civil society among researchers and activists, and a widespread assumption among many policy makers in different parts of the world of its global relevance to strengthening development and democracy.1 This, in many ways, is understandable. Yet, the pervasiveness notwithstanding, the very concept of civil society, its antecedents and the implications thereof, its scope, relevance, and utility, have generated significant discursive controversies, especially in relation to the internal processes of, and in the environment of, the postcolonial African state. Does civil society in a multinational postcolonial state such as Nigeria promote state building and national development or is it an impediment that renders the state fragile? Given the structural complexity and the double instrumental character of the postcolonial state,2 an interrogation of the concept of civil society in the context of, and in defining the locus of conventional civil society organizations (CSOs) vis-a-vis other competing associations in the postcolonial state setting, is a compelling imperative. These clarifications are keys to unraveling how the structure of society and its configuration as civil society facilitate or impede the process of state and nation building. What is the nexus between the structure and character of civil society and the strengthening or “fragilizing” of an African postcolonial state such as Nigeria?
Abstract: Peace engineering is serious political economy. It consolidates the dominant and subord... more Abstract: Peace engineering is serious political economy. It consolidates the dominant and subordinate relations between the developed and underdeveloped universes. The issue has acquired critical salience since the end of the cold war created the danger that the ability of the peoples of Africa to determine their destiny would be severely compromised and undermined
Abstract: Emancipation of a people entails the simple task of self-validating the integrity of it... more Abstract: Emancipation of a people entails the simple task of self-validating the integrity of its own identity against the odds. In this, African societies would seem to have failed
Abstract: The use of terror, including the slaughtering of infidels and apostates, kidnappings of... more Abstract: The use of terror, including the slaughtering of infidels and apostates, kidnappings of civilians and mass abductions, forced marriages and gang rapes of girls and women, is an expression of deeply held contempt for the extant social order
Abstract: The real challenge is whether this putative new order has the motive force to galvanise... more Abstract: The real challenge is whether this putative new order has the motive force to galvanise the necessary popular support for this more ethically grounded democratic dispensation in Nigeria’s public life
Abstract: The direction of Nigeria/South Africa relations can be better understood in terms of an... more Abstract: The direction of Nigeria/South Africa relations can be better understood in terms of an evolved but nuanced struggle for preponderant influence on the continent by these two major pivots of the emerged post-Cold War constellation of forces in Africa
Abstract: Corruption is clearly associated with the power calculus in state spaces and societies ... more Abstract: Corruption is clearly associated with the power calculus in state spaces and societies floundering with no validating principles. It is what defines who is in and who is out. He who dares wins
Abstract: Please refer to full text to view abstract
Abstract: The African Renaissance seeks to repudiate the principal American and Euro-centric idea... more Abstract: The African Renaissance seeks to repudiate the principal American and Euro-centric ideational structures that constitute the foundations of the dominant order that has always defined the peripheral locus and irrelevance of the black world in the universe
Abstract: People who come because they think that Europe is a prosperous continent… must be escor... more Abstract: People who come because they think that Europe is a prosperous continent… must be escorted back, that’s the rule. Francoise Hollande, President of France, on African and Middle Eastern immigrants to Europe
The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absol... more The chapter navigates post-independence politics characterized by the struggle for partisan absolute appropriations of state spaces. It codifies commonalities across a universe of 56 postcolonial entities and their limited panoply of patrimonial governance paradigms. African states are differentiated by their different trajectories to statehood, their colonial experiences, and the character of revolutionary struggles. The neo-colonial traditions bequeathed to them, the differential salience of imposed affinities and institutions, and their heterogeneous internal constructions all influence the internal dynamics and specificities of the one-man state or one party state. After the Cold War neo-patrimonial governance emerged in peculiar constitutional systems in the post-one-man state and post-one-party state. Post-revolutionary states have suffered the same fate.
African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 2012
Contesting the Nigerian State, 2013