Article: Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics

Roger Southall and Henning Melber, eds. Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics. Cape Town: HSRC Press/Uppsala: Nordic Afrikainstitutet, 2006. xxvi + 350 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Drawing on case studies from Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa, Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics is a definitive compilation about the role and status of former African presidents by African scholars, mostly political scientists and economists. Their findings both support and challenge the notion that African politics is centered on patronage systems, headed by what Chabal and Daloz (1999) refer to as "Big ...

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