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This article explores Africa's development challenges from a public administration service delivery capacity perspective. The paper contends that African countries lack a well-coordinated central policy making machinery of government which has the capacity to set major development objectives of government and ensure service delivery consistency. The paper further notes that an efficient public sector is a prerequisite to any meaningful development in Africa. Public bureaucracies are viewed as the vehicles through which the struggle toward development and national building can be achieved. The paper has relied on documentary sources and the contribution represents a modest attempt to shed some light on the ongoing debate on the efficacy of Africa's public management institutions.

ABSTRACTThis study focuses on the analysis of management theories of the 19th and early 20th centuries that are commonly referred to as classical organization theories. These ideas are contrasted with the human relations school of thought that achieved great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. The study asserts that there are valuable lessons that modern public bureaucracies and other public institutions can draw from these early theoretical frameworks. Public organizations molded on the classical organizational management theoretical perspectives have proven remarkably stable in different circumstances around the world. However, they are now increasingly expected to adapt to new and unforeseen circumstances by integrating the foundations inherited from the past and the lessons learnt over the past three decades. Such an approach will enable public institutions to adapt to rapid changing circumstances and in the process be well equipped to meet the demands of their citizens at the levels of theory and practice. Key words: classical organization theory, human relations perspectives, rationality, rule of law, public administration.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables & Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: The Causes & Costs of War in Africa From Liberation Struggles to the 'War on Terror' -- Prologue: Conflict in Africa: An Overview -- 1: When States Implode -- 2: Multiple Complexity & Prospects for Reconciliation & Unity -- 3: 'You Don't Belong Here' -- 4: The Terrible Toll of Postcolonial Rebel Movements -- 5: Fanon & the African Woman Combatant -- 6: Fighting Locally, Connecting Globally -- 7: Legislative Responses to Terrorism & the Protection of Human Rights -- 8: Conflicts & Implications for Poverty & Food Security Policies in Africa -- 9: Two Africas? Two Ugandas? -- Index.

<p>This article examines the prospects and challenges of industrialisation as a tool for economic development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The economic importance of industrialisation is enshrined in its capacity to create job opportunities and facilitate synergies between and among various sectors of the economy. The paper posits that industrialisation is an engine for economic development that can promote sustainable positive social change in any given society. While the perceived view is that, in general, the industrialisation process in Africa has been disappointing; the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has committed itself towards embracing the concept of industrialisation as a tool for economic growth and development. Thus, given the historical failure of this concept on the African continent, it is important to analyse the prospects and challenges likely to be faced by the SADC region in their bid to hasten the industrialisation of their countries. Substantively, the paper relied on documentary research.</p>

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: The Resolution of African Conflicts -- 1: The Role of Sub-Regional Integration Schemes in Conflict Prevention & Management in Africa -- 2: Conflict Resolution in Africa -- 3: The Continental Early Warning System of the African Union -- 4: The International Criminal Court & the Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency in Northern Uganda -- 5: How to Make Democracy Work? -- 6: Local Government & the Management of Conflict in Fragmented Societies -- 7: Managing the Process of Conflict Resolutionin the Sudan -- 8: Elections & Conflict in Southern Africa -- 9: The Somali Peace Processfrom Arta to Eldoret to Mbagathi -- 10: Peace & War in Post-Conflict Mozambique -- 11: Post-1990 Constitutional Reforms in Africa -- Index.