Publisher's Synopsis
Since independence, Africa has been a region of political disorder, disintegration, ethnic conflicts and strife, civil wars, failing states, transnational crimes, such as terrorist networks, piracy, drug trafficking and others. This book examines the root causes of the Africa's post-colonial state crises and what went wrong after the African states managed to gain their political independence regarded by many as the 'illusion sovereignty', it questions why the African states fail one after another.
This book though will not put the blame of failure of African states on anyone but will only analyzes some of the issues in Africa from corruptions to some of the tribalism and other issues that are primarily African issues to deal with. For examples, Africans elected people of questionable resume as their leaders but when such people fail, then Africans will remember slave trade, colonization and others. One thing that is done differently in the West is that the government works for the people but in Africa, leaders work only for themselves and their family. Then, can we continue to blame the West for our own stupidity?
