This book examines the democratization process in Africa with a focus on issues of economic, social, and institutional development. Contributors analyze the impact of democratization on governance and institutional development, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, terrorism in Africa, identity politics, and the politics of oil extraction.

African Governance, Security, and Development explores the political economy of development in Africa. The contributors examine the impact and implications of the democratization process in Africa with particular focus on issues of economic, social, and institutional development. Through a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines, contributors analyze topics such as the impact of democratization on governance and institutional development, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, terrorism in Africa, identity politics, and the politics of oil extraction. African Governance, Security, and Development features the voices of scholars from institutions of higher learning in Africa and showcases case studies from the continent, bringing much-needed African and Africanist perspectives to current discussions about African political development and economy.

Introduction: Democracy, Governance, and Development

Wanjala S. Nasong’o

Part I: The Challenge of Democratic Consolidation

Chapter 1: Different Paths, Similar Destination: The Unending and Un-consolidating Democratic Transition in Kenya and Uganda

Joshua M. Kivuva

Chapter 2: The Legislature and Third Term Ambition in African Democracy

Ibrahim Yusuf and Stanley O. Ehiane

Chapter 3: Assessing the Impact of Democratization: The Case of Kenya’s Supreme Court

John Mwangi Githigaro

Chapter 4: Democracy and Education in African Schools: Contradictions between Theory and Practice in Kenya

Suleiman Kairu Mwangi

Chapter 5: Politics of Identity and Democratization in Postcolonial Africa: Kenyan Experience

Vundi Nason

Part II: Gender, Ethnicity, and Civic Engagement

Chapter 6: Gender and Political Governance in Africa: Revisiting Past and Contemporary Dimensions

Fatuma Guyo

Chapter 7: Transforming the ‘Bearded’ Parliament in Africa through Gender Mainstreaming: The Case of the Kenyan National Parliament

Vundi Nason

Chapter 8: The Curse of the Last Name in Being and Becoming Kenyan

Ken Walibora Waliaula

Chapter 9: Ethnicity or Clientelism? Explaining Cote d’Ivoire’s Election Crisis

Patrick Effah

Chapter 10: The Civic Culture and Post-Colonial Political Imagination in Cabo Verde

Paulino Do Canto

Part III: Governance, Security, and Development

Chapter 11: Debt and Economic Development in Kenya

John Musalia

Chapter 12: Oil Politics, Institutional Framework, and Inclusive Development in Uganda

Julius Niringiyimana

Chapter 13: The Cost of Terrorism in Africa: The Case of the Boko Haram Insurgents in Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin

George C. Mbara, Stanley O. Ehiane, and Nirmala Gopal

Chapter 14: Political Discourses and Regional (Dis) Integration: Comparing Narratives from the Global South and Global North

Francis Onditi