When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa by Robert H. Bates

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa

Robert H. Bates

191 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. I...

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