African Governance, Security, and Development

WanjalaS. Nasong’o is professor of international studies at Rhodes College.

• Introduction: Democracy, Governance, and DevelopmentWanjala S. Nasong’oPart I: The Challenge of Democratic ConsolidationChapter 1: Different Paths, Similar Destination: The Unending and Un-consolidating Democratic Transition in Kenya and UgandaJoshua M. KivuvaChapter 2: The Legislature and Third Term Ambition in African DemocracyIbrahim Yusuf and Stanley O. Ehiane Chapter 3: Assessing the Impact of Democratization: The Case of Kenya’s Supreme CourtJohn Mwangi GithigaroChapter 4: Democracy and Education in African Schools: Contradictions between Theory and Practice in KenyaSuleiman Kairu MwangiChapter 5: Politics of Identity and Democratization in Postcolonial Africa: Kenyan ExperienceVundi NasonPart II: Gender, Ethnicity, and Civic EngagementChapter 6: Gender and Political Governance in Africa: Revisiting Past and Contemporary DimensionsFatuma GuyoChapter 7: Transforming the ‘Bearded’ Parliament in Africa through Gender Mainstreaming: The Case of the Kenyan N

African Governance, Security, and Development is a comprehensive and thoughtful collection of timely essays written to reveal enduring patterns in African political and socio-economic life. The text goes beyond an explanation of challenges of democratic reforms, consolidation, security, gender inequalities, and unfinished development policy agendas in Africa and explores the complex interactions of these variables as they manifest in different African countries. The volume elegantly interweaves several themes in the development discourse in a way that is useful to students and practitioners of African governance.