African Journal of Political Science and International Relations

15/06/2021

Electoral institutions and management of elections in Nigeria and Ghana: A comparative assessment

Since the arrival of new democratic train in West Africa, elections have been characterized with naked violence and irregularities which have negatively manifested in economic underdevelopment and political instability. To this end, understanding the dominant nature and character of the electoral management bodies of Nigeria and Ghana to identify a body that is substantially functioning well is central to this paper.

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08/06/2021

Attitudes of the Sudanese people towards the performance of new transitional government: An exploratory study

The major theme of the article is to investigate the attitudes of the Sudanese citizen's attitudes towards the performance of the new Transitional Government regarding certain pressing policy issue area inherited from the previous regime which includes the issues of policymaking, economy, bread shortage, as well as oil and cooking gas shortage, the issues of peace security and corruption.

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02/06/2021

Fiscal federalism, sub-national revolts and internal colonialism in Nigeria

This paper reviews fiscal federalism, sub-national political revolt and internal colonialism in Nigeria.

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26/05/2021

Political opportunism, impunity and the perpetuation of Victor’s Justice: A case of the Rwandan Genocide

The genocide in Rwanda remains one of the most tragic and horrendous events witnessed in Africa, and an important case study in the exploits of transitional justice.

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The genocide in Rwanda remains one of the most tragic and horrendous events witnessed in Africa, and an important case study in the exploits of transitional justice. An approximated number of one million people were subjected to systematic r**e, murder and torture with several thousands of people be...

20/04/2021

Stay at home: Coronavirus (COVID-19), isolationism and the future of globalization

The objective of this paper is to argue that while these policies can reduce the spread of the virus and saves lives, the unintended consequences in terms of inappropriate use of time, pyscho-emotional distress, and loss of livelihoods on one hand and shrinking international or inter-state cooperation and declining trend of globalization, on the other hand, will be incalculable.

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07/04/2021

Political trust in Botswana’s executive presidency: The Khama era

This article examines political trust in the institution of the presidency.

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15/03/2021

The travails of Nigerian federalism 1951-1999: A federation in crisis of constitutional engineering.

This paper briefly discusses some conceptual notes of federalism and summarizes the federal constitutions in Nigeria from 1951 till date.

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02/03/2021

India and China in Africa: Rivalry or catching up?.

In this study, the author posits that both China and India deepening engagement in Africa clearly share common objectives and motives while the main difference rests with means implemented to carry them out.

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17/02/2021

Globalisation and COVID-2019 pandemic: The nexus and impact on development in Africa.

This study examines the relationship between globalisation and COVID-19 pandemic as well as impact on development in Africa.

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05/02/2021

Manifest destiny and foreign relations: Examining the Nigeria-South Africa contradiction.

This article analyses the dichotomy between potentials and capabilities with respect to Nigeria-South Africa relations and how this impinges on the leadership contest majorly involving the two countries.

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01/02/2021

Civil society under assault in Ethiopia.

The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of the CSP 621/2009 on the engagement of CSOs in promoting and protecting human rights in Ethiopia.

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27/01/2021

Demystifying the concept of state or regulatory capture from a theoretical public economics perspective.

The aim of this paper was to give an elaborate and detailed discussion surrounding the phenomenon of state capture from a public finance perspective.

Full study: https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJPSIR/article-abstract/91C144D58697

18/01/2021

Changing aid and diplomatic relations: New development actors and Norway in Africa.

The study argues that, Norway’s relations to Africa have shifted towards being more interest-driven as a consequence of the growing China’s engagements.

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04/01/2021

A critical review of Agenda 2063: Business as usual?

This paper sets out to review and critically examine the Agenda 2063, a strategic long term planning instrument for the development of Africa in the next fifty years, prepared by the African Union Commission on the occasion of celebrating the OAU/AU golden jubilee in 2013.

Full study: https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJPSIR/article-abstract/6790F5858951

29/12/2020

Dictatorship, bad governance and their impact on public need and social development: A comparative public administration (CPA) study on the evidence of Togo.

This study aimed to investigate the major challenges facing Togolese State government in public administration, and to provide some policy recommendation that can be applied to overcome these threats.

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18/12/2020

Imaginary nature of political power in Africa: The sovereignty of orality.

In this article, the authors propose a political thought, based on the imaginary power of the African peoples, coupled with the principles of modern power from Western Europe; and analyzed sovereignty, both national and popular, based on speech or oral expression.

Full article: https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJPSIR/article-abstract/BC7763759281

14/12/2020

The ‘Significance of Elections’ in Africa: 2015 elections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria.

The paper examines elections in Africa, using the recently concluded 2015 elections in Nigeria to show the significance and effect of credible elections to democratic consolidation by situating its argument within the context of Staffan Lindberg theoretical postulation.

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09/12/2020

Corruption and fiscal federalism in Nigeria: Analysis of the federal budgetary process, 1999 – 2016.

This paper interrogates corruption and fiscal federalism in Nigeria through an analysis of the federal budgetary process from 1999 to 2016.

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04/12/2020

A theoretical analysis of corruption in Sudan: Causes, diagnostics, consequences, and remedies.

This study is a descriptive and a theoretical analysis of corruption in Sudan. Given the causes and current level of corruption in the country, the current paper aims to determine some of the possible remedies of corruption.

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01/12/2020

The Nigerian senate and the politics of the non-passage of the gender equality bill.

This paper aims at interrogating the critical factors that has hindered the passage of the Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity Bill in Nigeria.

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27/11/2020

Democratic illiteracy: A threat to sustainable democracy and peace in Ghana.

This paper argues that citizens’ uncooperative attitude in governance issues, and leaders’ unpreparedness to be accountable to the citizenry result from lack of democratic acculturation.

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23/11/2020

The way-forward to make inter-governmental authority on development (IGAD) successful in actualizing a viable economic integration.

This study embraces multilevel governance as its theoretical lens to evaluate the role and functions of nation states and supranational
institutions in IGAD economic integration scheme.

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18/11/2020

Conflicts and insurgency: Barriers to global quality health service for internally displaced persons in the North Eastern Part of Nigeria.

The paper examines conflict and insurgency as barrier to quality health service for internally displaced persons in the North Eastern part of Nigeria.

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13/11/2020

Analysis of political parties’ ideologies influencing public policy formulation in Uganda’s Nascent Hydrocarbon Industry.

This study examined political parties’ ideologies influencing public policy formulation in Uganda’s nascent hydrocarbon industry. The study followed the four research objectives, research questions and hypotheses.

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09/11/2020

Uganda and the refugee problem: challenges and opportunities.

This article looks at the major refugee protection challenges that confront Uganda. It further addresses some of the emerging opportunities which if seized could provide effective protection to the refugees.

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04/11/2020

China’s engagement in the promotion of peace and security in the Horn of Africa: An interplay of big power responsibility and geopolitical interest.

The objective of this paper is to identify and describe the areas where China is contributing its part in addressing regional disruption.

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26/10/2020

“Mother tongue won’t help you eat”: Language politics in Sierra Leone.

This article addresses the question, how does Sierra Leone’s language regime, moderated through formal and informal education, contribute to post-war globalization dynamics?

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16/10/2020

Potency of ECOWAS mission strategy in resolving electoral conflict in West Africa: A case of Côte d’Ivoire.

This paper examined the extent of ECOWAS Peace Strategy in resolving the Post-Electoral crisis in Côte d’Ivoire and the efficiency of the ECOWAS Election Mission Strategy.

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16/10/2020

Nigerian morbid federalism and demand for political restructuring.

This paper interrogate the organic composition of Nigerian federalism; constitutional conferences and logic of political restructuring and the implications of Nigerians’ perceptive on restructuring question.

Full article: https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJPSIR/article-full-text-pdf/2EC678363175

07/10/2020

The impact of China on the agency and negotiating power of African countries: Cases of Angola and Niger.

This paper argues that the growing importance of China in Africa coupled with its unconventional aid model has increased its agency vis-à-vis western countries.

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