Eight Problems with African Politics

Issue Date July 1997
Volume 8
Issue 3
Page Numbers 156-70
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About the Author

Célestin Monga is an economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He has taught economics and political science at Boston University and the University of Bordeaux. His books include L’argent des autres (1997) and The Anthropology of Anger (1996). The views expressed in the following essay are entirely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank.

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