TY - BOOK AU - Kalu,Kenneth AU - Yacob-Haliso,Olajumoke AU - Falola,Toyin TI - Africa's big men: predatory state-society relations in Africa T2 - Global Africa SN - 9781138559332 AV - JQ1879.A15 A374 2018 U1 - 320.96 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group KW - Dictatorship KW - Africa KW - Political culture KW - Dictature KW - Afrique KW - 89.40 internal relations of the state: general KW - bcl KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Demokratisierung KW - gnd KW - Politische Identit�at KW - Politische Kultur KW - Staat KW - Staatsangeh�origkeit KW - Zivilgesellschaft KW - Totalitarisme KW - ram KW - Culture politique KW - 1960- KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Conditions sociales KW - Afrika KW - gtt N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Kenneth Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola -- The postcolonial African state and its citizens / Kenneth Kalu -- Africas "big men" and the African state / Kenneth Kalu -- Women, inclusive citizenship and the African state / Cheryl O'Brien and Adryan Wallace -- Women's political empowerment and the politics of citizenship in Nigeria and Tanzania / Olajide A. Akanji -- Digital citizenship in Africa's fractured social order / Emmanuel Chijioke Ogbonna -- Civil society and the African state / Alex Ng'oma -- Youth and big men politics / Ngozi Nwogwugwu -- Culture and religion in Africa: social transformation and tools for exploitation / Susan Mbula Kilonzo -- Pastocracy: performing pentecostal politics in Africa / Abimbola Adunni Adelakun -- Ethnic identity politics and the sustenance of Africa's predatory state / Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade -- Accountability theory and democracy in Nigeria / Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Adigun Agbaje -- State-society relations and nature of economic growth in Africa / Samuel Zalanga -- The social impact of Africa's predatory state-society relations / Samuel O. Oloruntoba -- Africa's "big men" in the continent's democratic experiments / Ernest Toochi Aniche ER -