Introduction / Kenneth Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola
The postcolonial African state and its citizens / Kenneth Kalu
Africas "big men" and the African state / Kenneth Kalu
Women, inclusive citizenship and the African state / Cheryl O'Brien and Adryan Wallace
Women's political empowerment and the politics of citizenship in Nigeria and Tanzania / Olajide A. Akanji
Digital citizenship in Africa's fractured social order / Emmanuel Chijioke Ogbonna
Civil society and the African state / Alex Ng'oma
Youth and big men politics / Ngozi Nwogwugwu
Culture and religion in Africa: social transformation and tools for exploitation / Susan Mbula Kilonzo
Pastocracy: performing pentecostal politics in Africa / Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
Ethnic identity politics and the sustenance of Africa's predatory state / Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade
Accountability theory and democracy in Nigeria / Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Adigun Agbaje
State-society relations and nature of economic growth in Africa / Samuel Zalanga
The social impact of Africa's predatory state-society relations / Samuel O. Oloruntoba
Africa's "big men" in the continent's democratic experiments / Ernest Toochi Aniche