Selected Themes in African Political Studies Political Conflict and

Against the background of a long and continuing record of political instability in Africa, this edited collection presents a multi-disciplinary approach to selected issues in African political studies. The contributions explore a range of political and co

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Lucky Asuelime Suzanne Francis Editors

Selected Themes in African Political Studies Political Conflict and Stability

Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Series Editors Diery Seck, CREPOL - Center for Research, Dakar, Senegal Juliet U. Elu, Morehouse College, Atlanta GA, USA Yaw Nyarko, New York University, NY, USA

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11885

Africa is emerging as a rapidly growing region, still facing major challenges, but with a potential for significant progress – a transformation that necessitates vigorous efforts in research and policy thinking. This book series focuses on three intricately related key aspects of modern-day Africa: economic, social and political development. Making use of recent theoretical and empirical advances, the series aims to provide fresh answers to Africa’s development challenges. All the sociopolitical dimensions of today’s Africa are incorporated as they unfold and new policy options are presented. The series aims to provide a broad and interactive forum of science at work for policymaking and to bring together African and international researchers and experts. The series welcomes monographs and contributed volumes for an academic and professional audience, as well as tightly edited conference proceedings. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, economic policy and trade, regional integration, labor market policies, demographic development, social issues, political economy and political systems, and environmental and energy issues

Lucky Asuelime • Suzanne Francis Editors

Selected Themes in African Political Studies Political Conflict and Stability

Editors Lucky Asuelime History and Strategic Studies University of Lagos, Lagos University Road, Akoka-Yaba Lagos Nigeria

Suzanne Francis Social Sciences Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban South Africa

ISSN 2198-7262 ISSN 2198-7270 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-06000-2 ISBN 978-3-319-06001-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06001-9 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946214 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, an