The African state at a critical juncture : between disintegration and reconfiguration / edited by Leonardo A. Villalón, Phillip A. Huxtable.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.

1. The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture / Leonardo A. Villalon -- 2. The African State in the Global Economic Context / Julius E. Nyang'oro and Timothy M. Shaw -- 3. State Inversion and Nonstate Politics / Joshua Bernard Forrest -- 4. Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution / Anna Simons -- 5. Rwanda: Chaos from Above / Timothy Longman -- 6. Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game / William Reno -- 7. Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State / John F. Clark -- 8. "Empirical Statehood" and Reconfigurations of Political Order / Catherine Boone -- 9. Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition / Leonardo A. Villalon and Ousmane Kane -- 10. Kenya: The Women's Movement and Democratic Change / Maria Nzomo -- 11. Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation / Daniel Green -- 12. Cote d'Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics / Dwayne Woods --

13. Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction / Ronald Kassimir -- 14. Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson -- 15. The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture / Phillip A. Huxtable.