Many West African societies have egalitarian political systems, with non-centralised distributions of power. 'Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna' analyses a
Since independence, the West African sub-region has been an arena for a number of large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as simmering and low-intensity u
This book, originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of a
Africa is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuation
The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the fo