The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood: Essays in Political Criticism

by Toyin Falola (Foreword)

This study explores and probes the shifting modes of politics in Africa as manifested in transitions from colonialism to political independence; from military dictatorship and civilian single-party authoritarianism to multiparty democratic experiments; as well as from one regime to another within the context of an emerging democratic dispensation on the continent.

414 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Toyin Omoyeni Falola is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. He is currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Falola earned his B.A. and Ph.D. (1981) in History at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Falola is author and editor of more than one hundred books, and he is the general editor of the Cambria African Studies Series (Cambria Press), Falola served as the president of the African Studies Association in 2014 and 2015.