Books, Goods, or Guns? The Origins of Elite Power in Contemporary Africa

• In Event: Postcolonial Inheritance and Governance in Africa

Brief Overview

African governments are seen as a strategic affair in which the representation of ethnoregional groups ebbs and flows. I show that colonial education—rather than development in general—casts a long shadow over who governs post-independence Africa.

Author

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland