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I have so far deliberately eschewed normative and ethical questions because I believe it is important to distinguish, even if the distinction is somewhat vague and arbitrary, between the normative and the analytical. Or rather, it is important to make it clear when normative analysis is of relevance to political analysis. Nevertheless, like all political analysts, I have approached my task with a certain set of preconceived ideas and a certain notion of what political good and bad are. This chapter is an attempt to make these ideas explicit.1
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S. Hamsphire (ed.), Public and Private Morality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
A. Sen and B. Williams (eds), Utilitarianism and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
D. Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
See here P. Duignan and L.H. Gann (eds), Colonialism in Africa, vol. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
A. Lestage, Literacy and Illiteracy (Paris: UNESCO, 1982).
For the colonial period: Robinson and Gallagher, 1961. For the post-colonial period: C. Clapham (ed.), Private Patronage and Public Power (London: Pinter, 1983).
For an overview, M. Crowder (ed.), The Cambridge History of Africa, vol. 8 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
The record of Côte d’Ivoire is in this respect interesting because it is so ambiguous: Y. Fauré and J.-F. Médard (eds), État et bourgeoisie en Côte d’Ivoire (Paris: Karthala, 1982).
In Senegal, white civil servants served under Senghor and even Diouf. G. Hesseling, Histoire politique du Sénégal: institutions, droit et société (Paris: Karthala, 1985).
Ghana illustrates the problem: R. Price, Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary Ghana (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975).
See a recent biography of Lumumba: J.-C. Willame, Patrice Lumumba: la crise congolaise revisitée (Paris: Karthala, 1990).
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Chabal, P. (1992). The Crisis of Good Government and Political Morality. In: Power in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12468-8_10
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