The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa

Scott Straus, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a founding editor of the University of Wisconsin Press’s Critical Human Rights series. His books include Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa. Aili Mari Tripp, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a founding editor of the University of Wisconsin Press’s Women and Gender in Africa series. Her books include Women and Power in Postconflict Africa.

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Introduction: The Legacies of Crawford Young
Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp
Part I. The Colonial and Postcolonial State in Africa
1 State Development in Contemporary Africa
William Reno
2 Third-Wave Democracy and the State in Sub-Saharan Africa
John W. Harbeson
3 The Colonial Legacy of Policing as State Building
Kaden Paulson-Smith
Part II. Rethinking the Politics of Identity
4 Rethinking the Politics of Identity
Rachel Betty Riedl
5 Sectarian Identity Formation and the Future of the African Postcolonial State: Lessons from Nigeria
Dauda Abubakar
6 The Politics of Identity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Enduring Power of Crawford Young’s Analysis and Its Limits
Timothy Longman
7 Ethnicity, Interests, and Class in Tanzania: Constructing Explanations
Joel Samoff
8 State Construction, Ethnicity, and Social Status: The Bifurcated Trajectories of Haalpulaaren in the Mauritania–Senegal Borderland
CÉdric Jourde
9 Crawford Young’s Cultural Politics Analytic Paradigm Applied to Ukraine-Russia
Joshua B. Forrest
Part II. Women, Gender, and Politics
10 Women Do Everything except Politics: Gender Quota in a Postconflict Society
Ladan Affi
11 Territorial Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and Women’s Peace Mobilization in Cameroon
Melinda J. Adams
12 “Who Will Open the Door?” Women in Parliament and Cabinet in Ghana
Gretchen Bauer and Akosua K. Darkwah
Afterword
Edmond J. Keller
Contributors
Index