Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the postcolony takes many forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy. Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in different sectors (crisis management, water, food security, universities), in different locales (including the African Union and specific regional contexts from West Africa, Zambia, to South Africa), and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance, and beyond), this volume makes a useful addition to the growing debates on 'how to govern'. It steers away from offering a 'correct' definition of governance, or from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It gives no conclusion that neatly sums up all the arguments advanced. Instead, readers are invited to draw their own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and analyses of governance in the postcolony. As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this collection brings together topical case studies that will be a valuable resource for those working in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration.

About the Author
David Everatt is head of the Wits School of Governance.

Pundy Pillay is professor of Economics and Public Finance, and Research director at the Wits School of Governance.|Patrick Bond is a distinguished professor, and teaches Political Economy and Political Ecology at the Wits School of Governance.

Caryn Abrahams is a senior lecturer at the Wits School of Governance.

Anthoni van Nieuwkerk is associate professor and teaches Security Studies at the Wits School of Governance.

Bongiwe Ngcobo Mphahlele is a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria.

Susan Booysen is professor emeritus and visiting professor at the Wits School of Governance. She is also director of research at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection.

Mike Muller is a professional engineer and visiting adjunct professor at the Wits School of Governance.

William Gumede is Associate Professor in the Wits School of Governance, and course leader in the School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest.

Chelete Monyane is an advocate of the High Court, is a senior lecturer at the Wits School of Governance.

Kirti Menon is the senior director in charge of Academic Planning and Academic Staff Development at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and research associate in the Faculty of Education at UJ.

Jody Cedras is the registrar and regulatory affairs officer for the Pearson Institute of Higher Education.

Darlene Miller is a senior lecturer at the Wits School of Governance. She is principal investigator in a research project on food governance and new food movements.

Nomalanga Mkhize is associate professor in History at Nelson Mandela University. She currently holds an NIHSS Sam Moyo Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rhodes University.

Rebecca Pointer is a PhD candidate at Wits School of Governance.

Babalwa Magoqwana is a senior lecturer in the Sociology, Anthropology and History Department at Nelson Mandela University.


Book Information
ISBN 9781776143443
Author David Everatt
Format Paperback
Page Count 340
Imprint Wits University Press
Publisher Wits University Press