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Africa after the Cold War: New Patterns of Government and Politics
Stephen Ellis,
Stephen Ellis
Stephen Ellis: is a researcher at the Afrika-studiecentrum, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. He is the editor of Africa Now: People Politics and Institutions (James Currey, London, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague) and Afrique maintenant (Editions Karthala, Paris, and Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, La Haye), a study of recent trends in Africa commissioned by the Netherlands Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS).
Search for more papers by this authorStephen Ellis,
Stephen Ellis
Stephen Ellis: is a researcher at the Afrika-studiecentrum, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. He is the editor of Africa Now: People Politics and Institutions (James Currey, London, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague) and Afrique maintenant (Editions Karthala, Paris, and Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, La Haye), a study of recent trends in Africa commissioned by the Netherlands Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS).
Search for more papers by this authorABSTRACT
The state-system of Africa is still essentially the one created by the colonial powers and passed on intact at independence. But the political economy of these states — the substance of political life within fixed territorial boundaries — is changing very profoundly as a result of the breakdown of the style of government of recent decades and the decline of economies based on the export of primary commodities. The political economy which is emerging, still within the same territorial boundaries, is best understood by reference to Africa's history over a long period.
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