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Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa: Legacies of Liberation Carolyn Bassett 1st edition
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Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa: Legacies of Liberation
Carolyn Bassett
National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams. This bookexplores the ongoing struggle for legitimate, accountable political leaders in postcolonial Southern Africa, focusing on dilemmas arising when ex-liberation movements form the governments. While the spread of multi-party democracy to most countries in the region is to be celebrated, democratic practice often has been superficial - a limited, elitist politics that relies on the symbols of the liberation struggle to legitimate de facto one-party rule and authoritarian practices. Using country cases from Tanzania, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia, the collection explores three subthemes relevant to postcolonial governance in Southern Africa: how the struggle for liberation shapes the character of political transformation, the nature of rule in one-party dominant states headed by former liberation movements, and the processes of governance and resistance in post-liberation contexts.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
130 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 8, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138913448 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 130 |
| Dimensions | 174 × 246 × 13 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Bassett, Carolyn (University of New Brunswick, Canada) |
| Editor | Clarke, Marlea (University of Victoria, Canada) |
