the polity as more than 14 million black South Africans remain subject to state-recognized, so-called “traditional …

relationship between state and society in contemporary Nigeria. This analysis reveals that in this case the hybrid interpretation … of the neopatrimonial state, which views official and unofficial norms as existing in parallel and suffusing one another …, has more analytical value than its counterpart, the wholesale state privatisation thesis. …

questions about its causes, the role of the state and the reality of current African societies. This article therefore analyses … Africa was somehow even more dangerous, because it contested state power itself. …

the context of what the South African state has become, and questions the characterisation of the post-Apartheid state as … a “developmental state”. This contribution first highlights what is at stake when the post-Apartheid state is portrayed … as a “developmental state” and how this misrecognition of the state is ideologically constituted. Second, it argues for …