Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone
by
William Reno
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
African Studies
ISBN-10
0521103479
ISBN-13
9780521103473
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2008
Print length
244 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 23.00 x 1.60 cms
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In this case study of contemporary Sierra Leone, William Reno argues that the global reach of some foreign firms offer supposedly 'weak' African rulers political resources to reshape regimes in ways that do not include building the 'strong stakes' that reformers expect.
William Reno provides a powerful, scholarly yet shocking account of the inner workings of an African state. He focuses upon the ties between foreign firms and African rulers in Sierra Leone, where politicians and warlords use private networks that exploit relationships with international businesses to buttress their wealth and so extend their powers of patronage. This permits them to expand the reach of their governments in unorthodox ways, but in the process they undermine the bureaucracty of their own states. Dr Reno suggests that as the post-colonial state is eroded there is a return to the enclave economies and private armies that characterised the pre-colonial and colonial arrangements between European businessmen or administrators and some African political figures.
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