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* several others.
* Jean-Pascal Daloz, senior CNRS Researcher at the Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noire in Bordeaux.
* Patrick Chabal, Professor of Lusophone African Studies, University of London.
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Africa Works looks at what is happening in Africa and offers an original interpretation of the continent's precarious condition.
* The informalization of politics:
Are African political systems actually institutionalizing or have the prevailing personal and vertical links between patrons and clients continued, purposely and profitably, to hold sway?
* The 're-traditionalization' of society:
Is the resurgence of ethnicity, witchcraft and other 'cultural' traits in Africa an indication of the continent's move backward or evidence of this multi-faceted path to modernization?
* The productivity of economic 'failure':
Is Africa's inability to develop the result of dubious policy choices, of external constraints, or the logical outcome of a singular dynamic by which patrimonial networks are enriched at the expense of the continent's economic growth?
* The political instrumentalization of disorder:
The authors develop a new paradigm which makes sense of the processes outlined above and provides a realistic approach to the analysis of Africa's contemporary politics.
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