Governance and Societal Adaptation in Fragile States

Introduction.- The Realities of Governance: Conflict and Context across Africa.- State Institutions and the Consolidation of Popular Government in Nigeria.- Local institutional designs and reforms in Rwanda and Burundi.- Community-Based Organisations and the Development Agenda in Zimbabwe: The Case of Marange Development Trust, 2014-2017.- Framing Resilience and Adaptability: A Critical Discourse Analysis of ZANU PF Policy Texts in the Zimbabwean post-2000 Context.- Good Governance under Zuma Administration: Fad or Reality?.- Claiming the State: the political economy of social welfare access in rural South Africa.- Prospects for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity to Enhance African Political Governance.- The Struggles of adoption and adaptation in The Governance Space of Vanuatu: The Incorporation of Jifly authority and Kastom governance into the legal-rational system.