Unravelling Africa’s misgovernment: How state failures fuel the emergence of violent non-state actors: Selected case studies
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چکیده
This paper explores the multifaceted challenges post-colonial African states face in addressing underdevelopment and ethnoreligious intolerance, resulting an unstable socio-economic political environment. It argues that inability of post-independent to foster good governance, accountability, inclusive politics has given rise violent non-state actors (VNSAs) seeking challenge state’s legitimacy due its failure provide essential services. With Africa’s diverse makeup, fragmentation governance inevitably incites rebellion against state, fuelling growth influence VNSAs. utilizes a literature review methodology address research question insights into subject matter. By employing concept state fragility as analytical framework, it examines how elitism corruption have come define modern state. As result, emerged significant challengers established rules-based order Furthermore, these VNSAs find support among marginalized local populations, which grown disillusioned with elites exploiting their power neglecting responsibility deliver In light findings, this underscores urgent need for collective developmental framework prioritizes involvement people process. Without such will persist questioning legitimacy, leading dire repercussions human life overall stability continent.
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عنوان ژورنال: Cogent Social Sciences
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2331-1886']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2228127