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African Dictators
Author | : Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105082116257 |
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Dictators and Democracy in African Development
Author | : A. Carl LeVan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107081147 |
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This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Dictatorland
Author | : Paul Kenyon |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781784972158 |
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A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people. The Libyan army officer who authored a new work of political philosophy, The Green Book, and lived in a tent with a harem of female soldiers, running his country like a mafia family business. And behind these almost incredible stories of fantastic violence and excess lie the dark secrets of Western greed and complicity, the insatiable taste for chocolate, oil, diamonds and gold that has encouraged dictators to rule with an iron hand, siphoning off their share of the action into mansions in Paris and banks in Zurich and keeping their people in dire poverty.
Fictions of African Dictatorship
Author | : Hannah Grayson,Charlotte Baker |
Publsiher | : Saint Philip Street Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1013292537 |
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Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of veracity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony, and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Defeating Dictators
Author | : George B.N. Ayittey |
Publsiher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230341098 |
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Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist. As a result, millions have died, economies are in shambles, and whole states are on the brink of collapse. Political observers and policymakers are starting to believe that economic aid is not the key to saving Africa. So what does the continent need to do to throw off the shackles of militant rule? African policy expert George Ayittey argues that before Africa can prosper, she must be free. Taking a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Ukraine's orange revolution in 2004 to Iran's Green Revolution last year, he examines what strategies worked in the struggle to establish democracy through revolution. Ayittey also offers strategies for the West to help Africa in her quest for freedom, including smarter sanctions and establishing fellowships for African students.
Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship
Author | : Cecile Bishop |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781351553575 |
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The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cliches portraying Africans as incapable of self-government. Against the heavily-politicized responses provoked by this dilemma, Bishop argues for a form of criticism that places the complexity of the reader's or spectator's experiences at the heart of its investigations. Ranging across literature, film and political theory, this study calls for a reengagement with notions - often seen as unwelcome diversions from political questions - such as referentiality, genre and aesthetics. But rather than pit 'political' approaches against formal and aesthetic procedures, the author presents new insights into the interplay of the political and the aesthetic. Cecile Bishop is a Junior Research Fellow in French at Somerville College, Oxford.
Dictators Dictatorship and the African Novel
Author | : Robert Spencer |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030665562 |
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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s as an effective ‘recolonization’ of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa’s continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy.
Psychoses of Power
Author | : Samuel Decalo |
Publsiher | : Florida Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105023099232 |
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