Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He was most recently a Visiting Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Nigeria.Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Introduction: Kenneth E. Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin FalolaSection A: Citizens, Citizenship, and State-Society RelationsChapter 1: The Postcolonial African State and its Citizens - Kenneth E. KaluChapter 2: Africa’s "Big Men" and the African State - Kenneth E. Kalu Chapter 3: Women, Inclusive Citizenship and the African State - Cheryl O’Brien and Adryan WallaceChapter 4: Women’s Political Empowerment and the Politics of Citizenship in Nigeria and Tanzania - Olajide O. AkanjiChapter 5: Digital Citizenship in Africa’s Fractured Social Order - Ogbonna Emmanuel ChijiokeSection B: Civil Society, Identities, and Big MenChapter 6: Civil Society and the African State - Alex Ng’omaChapter 7: Youth and Big Men Politics - Ngozi NwogwugwuChapter 8: Culture and Religion in Africa: Social Transformation and Tools for Exploitation - Susan KilonzoChapter 9: Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal Politics in Africa - Abimbola Adunni AdelakunChapter 10: Ethnic Identity Politics and the Sustenance of Africa’s Predatory State - Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo OyebadeSection C: Democratic Impact of Predatory State-Society RelationsChapter 11: Accountability Theory and Democracy in Nigeria - Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Adigun AgbajeChapter 12: State-Society Relations and Nature of Economic Growth in Africa - Samuel ZalangaChapter 13: The Social Impact of Africa’s Predatory State-Society Relations - Samuel OloruntobaChapter 14: Africa’s "Big Men" in the Continent’s Democratic Experiments - Toochi Aniche

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