history of public administration
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY – Vol. I - Development of African Administration: Pre-Colonial Times and since - Emizet F. Kisangani
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN ADMINISTRATION: PRECOLONIAL TIMES AND SINCE
Emizet F. Kisangani
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Keywords: ancient, civilization, colonization, development, administration, corruption, administrative reform.
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1. The Pre-colonial Period: From the Ashes of Pharaohs to the Berlin Conference
1.1. Ancient Civilization of Africa: The Case of Egypt
1.2. Medieval Africa
1.3. Beyond the Medieval Era to the Nineteenth Century
2. Colonial Administration
2.1. The Consolidation of the Colonial Administration
2.2. Beyond the First World War and toward Independence
3. The Post-Colonial Administration and Problems of Development
3.1. Historical and Structural Origins
3.2. Administrative Performance in the Post-Colonial Period
3.3. Administrative Reforms in Africa
4. Conclusions
Glossary
Bibliography
Biographical Sketch
Summary
Historical accounts of African public administration often highlight the colonial setting and usually overlook pre-colonial Africa. The African civil service has its roots in precolonial institutions on which European powers relied to build the colonial state and consolidate their administration. Thus, this chapter analyzes the development of African administration from the pre-colonial era up to the present. The first section discusses the pre-colonial period. The colonial system constitutes the second section. The third section deals with the post-colonial period and discusses some problems associated with
African administration.
1. The Pre-Colonial Period: From the Ashes of Pharaohs to the Berlin Conference
At the end of the prehistoric period (10 000 BC), some African nomadic bands began to settle more permanently in villages along the Nile River to develop the political
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN ADMINISTRATION: PRECOLONIAL TIMES AND SINCE
Emizet F. Kisangani
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Keywords: ancient, civilization, colonization, development, administration, corruption, administrative reform.
Contents
U
SA NE
M SC
PL O
E –
C EO
H
AP LS
TE S
R
S
1. The Pre-colonial Period: From the Ashes of Pharaohs to the Berlin Conference
1.1. Ancient Civilization of Africa: The Case of Egypt
1.2. Medieval Africa
1.3. Beyond the Medieval Era to the Nineteenth Century
2. Colonial Administration
2.1. The Consolidation of the Colonial Administration
2.2. Beyond the First World War and toward Independence
3. The Post-Colonial Administration and Problems of Development
3.1. Historical and Structural Origins
3.2. Administrative Performance in the Post-Colonial Period
3.3. Administrative Reforms in Africa
4. Conclusions
Glossary
Bibliography
Biographical Sketch
Summary
Historical accounts of African public administration often highlight the colonial setting and usually overlook pre-colonial Africa. The African civil service has its roots in precolonial institutions on which European powers relied to build the colonial state and consolidate their administration. Thus, this chapter analyzes the development of African administration from the pre-colonial era up to the present. The first section discusses the pre-colonial period. The colonial system constitutes the second section. The third section deals with the post-colonial period and discusses some problems associated with
African administration.
1. The Pre-Colonial Period: From the Ashes of Pharaohs to the Berlin Conference
At the end of the prehistoric period (10 000 BC), some African nomadic bands began to settle more permanently in villages along the Nile River to develop the political
Bibliography: Crowder, Michael. (1981). West Africa under Colonial Rule. London: The Anchor Press Ltd. [A seminal work on colonialism that discusses the different colonial rules and how Europe combined them to Desmond, C. J. (ed.) (1982). The Cambridge History of Africa: From the Earliest Times to c. 500BC. Vol. Hailey, Lord. (1957). An African Survey Revised 1956. London: Oxford University Press. [A seminal work on European colonization in Africa from the nineteenth century to the early 1950s.] Heidenheimer, A., J., Johnston M., and Victor T. Le Vine (eds). (1989). Political Corruption: A Handbook Rodney, Walter. (1981). How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Second ed. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press of military intervention. He is the author of several book chapters and a monograph entitled Zaire after Mobutu: A Case of a Humanitarian Emergency (Helsinki: UN/WIDER 1997)