Governance Trends in West Africa 2006: A Synthesis Report
Governance Trends in West Africa 2006: A Synthesis Report by Adebayo Olukoshi
English, French | December 29, 2008 | ISBN: 2869782128 | 68 pages | PDF | 1.54 Mb
English, French | December 29, 2008 | ISBN: 2869782128 | 68 pages | PDF | 1.54 Mb
The West African sub-region has a distinctive history as one of the most dynamic parts of the African continent. Forged out of a long, often contradictory, always contested trajectory of state formation, dissolution, and recomposition that has been accompanied at different stages by widespread population movements, the sub-region has, inevitably, grappled with a wide range of core, enduring governance questions. These questions have contributed, to one degree or another, to the making and character ofcontemporary state systems, as well as the political cultures underpinning them. It is hoped that readers of this synthesis report will find it useful as a quick and easily digestible summary of some of the key developments in West Africa that had a direct bearing on governance in the sub-region during 2006. The report does not pretend to be exhaustive-it cannot possibly be. Nor is it constructed as a chronological account-that was not deemed desirable. Rather, it seeks, in an omnibus mann