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.