State and Society in Francophone Africa since Independence

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; A.Kirk-Greene - PART 1: POLITICAL SYSTEMS - Decolonisation: French and British Styles; J.Hargreaves - 'Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi': The Comparative Legacy of Chiefs After the Transfer of Power in British and French West Africa; A.Kirk-Greene - Thirty Years of Legal Practice in the Shadow of the State: The Taming of Leviathan; E.Le Roy - Public Administration, State and Society; D.Darbon - Educational Systems, Social Stratification and the Construction of the State; T.D.Bakary - Armies and Politics: The 'Lifecycle' of Military Rule in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa; M.Martin - The Phenomenon of the One-Party State; K.Ziemer - 'Peristroika' and the One-Party System; C.Toulabor - PART 2: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DYNAMICS - Models and Economic Performance; P.Hugon - State Intervention in the Economy; B.Contamin & Y-A.Faure - The Franc Zone: Original Logic, Subsequent Inflexibility and Present Crisis; J.Coussy - PART 3: EXTERNAL RELATIONS - The Foreign Policy of Francophone Africa: Clientelism and After; F.C.Constantin - Francophone Regionalism or Franco-African Regionalism; D.Bach - French Military Interventions: The Case of Chad; R.Buijtenhuijs - Beyond Francophone? The Senegambia Confederation in Retrospect; J.Lewis & A.Hughes - PART 4: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY - Forty Years of African Literature in French: Can One Replant a Yam Whose Tendrils Are Already Above Ground?; D.Coussy - Literature and Philosophy in French-Speaking Africa; B.Mouralis - Mutual Perceptions in Africa; K.Whiteman - Index