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Ernest Toochi Aniche is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria.
Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Introduction: Institutions and Development in Africa
Ernest Toochi Aniche and Toyin Falola
Part I: Institutions and Processes in Africa
- Reflections on Powers of Trade Union Federations in Democracies: A Comparative Discourse
Jerry Mmanoko Mathekga
- The Nigerian Education, Industry and Bureaucracy: The Counsellor’s Perspective
Ngozi Joy Maduka
- Privatization of the Electric Power Sector and Service Delivery in Nigeria
Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada, Nneka Ifeoma Okafor and Christopher Ewuzie Obianagwa
- The Relevance of Creativity Economics of Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Art on Political Socialization
Timothy Olusola Ogunfuwa
Part II: Institutions and Development Challenges in Africa
- Emerging Democratic Institutions and Culture in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
Toyin Falola
- Historicizing Development and the Dilemma of Adopting Western Models in Nigeria
Cinderella Temitope Ochu
- Local Government-State Joint Account and Crisis of Grassroots Development in Nigeria
Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada and Paul Hezekiah Omeh
- Nigeria and the Neo-colonial Dilemma: Rethinking the Challenge of an Unfinished Business
Obinna Innocent Ihunna
- Urban Redevelopment as Metaphor for Gentrification in the Making of a Mega-City: The Forced Displacement of Otodo Gbame/Ebute Ikate Community, Lagos State
Alabi Bamidele
- Railway and the Transformation and Modernization of Kafanchan, 1927-1993
Gaius Jatau
- Institutions, Inequality and Crisis of Developmental Regionalism in Africa
Ernest Toochi Aniche
- Trade Institutions, Trade Regimes and Challenges of Food Security in West Africa
Emeka C. Iloh, Ifeanyi P. Maduechesi and Chukwuemeka V. Muoneke
The subject of leadership and institutions in Africa is a very pertinent one. This is essential in the light of the experiences of many African states in which personalisation of office by political elites have taken precedence over building institutions.
— Samuel Oloruntoba, Associate Professor, Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa