Capital Cities in Africa Power and Powerlessness

Name: Capital Cities in Africa Power and Powerlessness
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ISBN: 9780796923509

ISBN-10: 0796923507

ISBN-13: 9780796923509

Edition: 2012

Authors: Simon Bekker, Gï¿½ran Therborn, Codesria Staff

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"Capital cities today remain central to both nations and states. They host centres of political power, not only national, but in some cases regional and global as well, thus offering major avenues to success, wealth and privilege. For these reasons capitals simultaneously become centres of "counter-power", locations of high-stakes struggles between the government and the opposition. This volume focuses on capital cities in nine sub-Saharan African countries, and traces how the power vested in them has evolved through different colonial backgrounds, radically different kinds of regimes after independence, waves of popular protest, explosive population growth and in most cases stunted…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Human Sciences Research Council
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Gouml;ran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Co-Director Emeritus of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala.