Federalism and Decentralization in Africa

​Leonid Issaev is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Affairs and the Vice Director of Center for Stability and Risks Analysis at the HSE University (Russia). He is also the senior research fellow at the Center for Civilization and Regional Studies of the Institute for African Studies, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Andrey Zakharov is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science, and Foreign Regional Studies at the Russian State University of Humanities.

Part I. African Experience of Federal Building: Historical Background.- Federalism and Colonialism: History, Practice and Lessons from Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.- Federalism and Expansion: The Collapse of the Federal Experiment in Cameroon and Aftermath.- Part II. African Experience of Federal Building: Contemporaneity.- "The Black's Man Burden": The Nigerian Federation as a Paradox.- Forcing Union: The Federal Takeover of Eritrea in Historical Perspective.- Decentralization under Apartheid and Democracy: South Africa as a Unitary Federation.- The Comoros: An Island Federalism.- Part III. African Alternatives to Federalism: Decentralization of Unitary Contexts.- Clan Federalism in Somalia.- "The Kurds of Africa": How the Tuaregs Were Left without Their Own State.