Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa

• Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary Africa
• Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, and what these processes are all about
• Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical and analytical insights into these processes in eight different country studies in Africa
• Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood in Africa

Keywords: Comparative Politics, Africa, state, political authority, actors, arenas, evolution of statehood, Democratic Republic of Congo-Uganda, Namibia, Ethiopia, Angola, Guinea, Mozambique, Cô, te d'Ivoire, Somaliland, institutional processes, Western state models