PostColonial Statehoods in the Global Order: Shorter Version

In Post-Colonial Statehoods in the Global Order, the author explores the implications of turbulence in the global system interacting with endogenous value and attitudinal transformations in Africa.The consolidation or deconsolidation of African statehoods had created profound divergences in their respective visions of the future of Africa as a player in the global system.Consolidated states seek to explore systemic instability to reconstruct the fundamentals of a new continental relationship based on equity with other elements in the international system.Deconsolidated states are status quo oriented, even if the rhetoric is not in sync with policy.In this setting, confrontation is generated between elite-centred deconsolidated status quo states and consolidated revolutionary states mobilized by value transformations across the continent. 'An extraordinarily sharp, thoughtful and provocative contemporary understanding of the proclivities of post-colonial African States written by a scho