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Foreword -- Note -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: New Pan African Economics -- Introduction -- A Book Objective: New Cultural Approaches to African International Political Economy -- Some Research Questions and a Thesis: The Relevance of Pan African Economics -- A Book Overview: Chapters 2 Through 6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Charting New Frames for African Global Engagement: Resuscitated Histories, Reimagined Concepts, and Reapplied Conte... -- Introduction -- A Methodological Framework: The Cultural International Political Economy of Africa -- Background: Review of African International Political Economy -- Africanist vs African Perspectives on Contemporary International Political Economy -- The Hidden Ideology of Africa Rising -- Pan African Economic Histories -- Pan Africanism as a Third Way -- The International Political-Economy of Pan-Africa Rising: New African Middle Classes, Decolonial Glocal Contexts, and Democrat... -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: South Africa´s Ubuntu BRICS and Nigeria´s Afri-Capitalist MINTS: The Comparative Political Economy of (Pan) African... -- Introduction -- The International Political Economy of Nigerian and South African Emerging Markets -- National Ideologies, Developmental States, and African Class Structures: Nigeria and South Africa Compared -- Developmental Democratic States -- National Bourgeoisies and Incipient Business Classes -- The Political Economy of New Middle Classes and Entrepreneurship -- The International Political Economy of Nigeria and South Africa in a Global World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Philosophy of African Economic Humanism: Ubuntu and Afri-Capitalism as Case Studies -- Introduction -- African Economic Humanism: From Pan Africanism to African Renaissance

From the Publisher: Since the 1990s trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the Continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period

When he was Vice-President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan pledged that his democratic regime would bring an end to conflict in the embattled Niger Delta region. This article examines the processes by which Jonathan's pledge is being realised. Using Amartya Sen's constructivist democracy theoretical framework, the article looks at the way that Nigeria's decade-old democracy is fostering peace and development in the Niger Delta through dialogue. It assesses the relationship between diverse regime actors – such as Jonathan and the former president, the late Umaru Yar'Adua, and their constituents, who are politically organised into a myriad of civil society groups and community activists – contending that their engagement is a foundation for deepening Nigeria's democracy. It argues that this process – albeit prone to constant fissures and tensions – is facilitating a resolution to the country's most challenging conflict since the civil war, one that will support sustained peace and development.

AbstractEmploying postcolonial critical international relations theory as its theoretical bedrock, this article uses the U.N.-U.S.-French-led humanitarian intervention in Haiti in 2004 to examine top-tier states' claims to universal human rights and bottom-tier states' claims to sovereign national democratic rights. This article critically interrogates both the theoretical and policy assumptions of an emergent interventionism by the North into the South, and examines Haitian social forces and their pan-African allies (CARICOM, the AU, and CBC), who are opposed to the universalist appropriation and imposition of a rights domain that curtails freedom in the international arena.

This article examines the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy in contemporary democratic regimes in Africa from the perspective of current trends in economic globalisation. It does so by underscoring the complexity of the prospects for democracy as is illustrated by some controversial trends in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. These trends include the 'fractured' executives, as well as the dominant incumbent parties the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Nigeria, and the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) in Kenya, that have all been embroiled in scandals recently. Using political economy theoretical themes and frameworks to illustrate the contentious effects that global regimes of capital are having on contemporary national democratic politics, the article shows how a democratic crisis in each country is associated with an economic crisis. It presents South Africa's French Connection Scandal, Nigeria's Globacom Affair, and Kenya's Anglo-Leasing Finance Scandal as iconic archetypes illustrating the thorny relationship between development and democracy in contemporary Africa. Adapted from the source document.