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      Review of African Political Economy

      Volume 28, Issue 89
       
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      Bringing political struggle back in: African politics, power & resistance

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            This article will investigate the enduring importance of political struggle as a key notion in the understanding of contemporary African politics. It does so with an awareness that this notion has fallen out of academic favour. This article sketches an approach that gives a key role to political struggle in processes of political change in sub‐Saharan Africa. In doing so, African political economies are seen as necessarily contested and therefore there is a need (to re‐work the phrase of the new statists/institutionalists) to consider bringing struggle back in to the analytical frame.

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            Journal ID (publisher-id): crea20
            Journal ID (archive): CREA
            Title: Review of African Political Economy
            Publisher: Review of African Political Economy
            ISSN (Print): 0305-6244
            ISSN (Electronic): 1740-1720
            Publication date (Print): September 2001
            Volume: 28
            Issue: 89
            Pages: 387-402
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            a Politics Department , University of Sheffield , UK
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            Publisher ID: 8704547 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 89, September 2001, pp. 387-402
            DOI: 10.1080/03056240108704547
            SO-VID: cac8578f-ff44-40a6-b18f-4d912680c1f8
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            Figures: 0, Tables: 0, References: 74, Pages: 16
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            Subject: Original Articles

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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