William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
| ISBN: | 9780521103473 |
| Publication date: | 11th December 2008 |
| Author: | William Florida International University Reno |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 244 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
Corruption in politics, government and society Central / national / federal government |
William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone features in the following genres: Corruption in politics, government and society, Central / national / federal government
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone is available in Paperback
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone was written by William Florida International University Reno and published by Cambridge University Press
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone has 244 pages
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