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: | 9780521471794 |
| Publication date: | 6th April 1995 |
| Author: | William Reno |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 229 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
African history History and Archaeology Central / national / federal government International relations Political economy |
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: African history, History and Archaeology, Central / national / federal government, International relations, Political economy
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone is available in Hardback
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone was written by William Reno and published by Cambridge University Press
Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone has 229 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series