Focusing on individual political thinkers and beginning with indigenous African political thought, the book successively examines African nationalism, African socialism, populism and Marxism, Africanism and pan-Africanism, concluding with contemporary perspectives on democracy, development and the African state.

African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad-ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends. This book is perfect for an undergraduate student starting out in their studies of African politics, or for any reader who wants to learn more about African governance.

African Politics: An Introduction is an engaging, broad-ranging guide to the politics of African states, reflecting on contemporary patterns and trends. This book is perfect for an undergraduate student starting out in their studies of African politics, or for any reader who wants to learn more about African governance.

Ian Taylor explores contemporary African politics in all its diversity, revealing how state and society actually functions beyond the formal institutional facade. He examines why questions of underdevelopment, outside exploitation, misrule, and weak state structures are characteristic of so many Sub-Saharan states in particular.

Jointly developed by three prominent pan-African bodies, the 2023 African Statistical Yearbook compiles essential statistics into a unified volume. Its collaborative approach cuts redundant reporting and offers consistent, reliable data for policymakers, researchers, and users across Africa.

This book brings together leading African scholars to consider China’s impact on Africa’s political, economic, cultural, environmental, and social spaces. Providing an important critical evaluation of China’s programs and projects in Africa, this will be important for researchers of Africa-China relations and global relations more broadly.