Book contents
- Political Leadership in Africa
- Political Leadership in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Leadership, Politics, and Development
- 2 Coming to Power and Using It
- 3 The Africa Leadership Change (ALC) Dataset
- 4 The Changing Dynamics of African Leadership: Rulers before and after 1990
- 5 When the Military Strikes
- 6 Lessening Africa’s “Big Men”
- 7 Leading for Development? (I)
- 8 Leading for Development? (II)
- 9 Autocrats, Hegemons, Democrats, and Transients
- 10 Leaders to Come
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- Political Leadership in Africa
- Political Leadership in Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Leadership, Politics, and Development
- 2 Coming to Power and Using It
- 3 The Africa Leadership Change (ALC) Dataset
- 4 The Changing Dynamics of African Leadership: Rulers before and after 1990
- 5 When the Military Strikes
- 6 Lessening Africa’s “Big Men”
- 7 Leading for Development? (I)
- 8 Leading for Development? (II)
- 9 Autocrats, Hegemons, Democrats, and Transients
- 10 Leaders to Come
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Political leaders loom large in African politics and development processes. They took center stage in public life after newly independent states emerged in the region, mostly in the early 1960s, and they grew ever more prominent over the better part of subsequent decades, favored by a widespread and persistent weakness of political institutions. As the developmental failures of most sub-Saharan economies became manifest, particularly from the 1980s onward, the ruinous leadership of many among them became obvious, if often only implicitly.
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- Political Leadership in AfricaLeaders and Development South of the Sahara, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020