The critical role of the state in shaping development prospects in the global South is no longer in question. Repeated economic and health crises over the past half century have underlined the folly of leaving market forces to govern the economy or of undermining the capacity of the state to protect citizens.

The challenge, however, is not only to identify how such high-performing agencies emerge in relation to the often competing logics of regime survival, political competition, and state formation that characterize political development at the national level, but to also locate this in the global context that the negotiation of statehood in Africa been embedded within for well over a century now (Hagmann and Peclard 2010). A creation of colonialism (Mamdani 1996), the post-colonial state in Africa has continued to be profoundly shaped by external forces and agendas.




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