CONTENDING ISSUES IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT -- Contents -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Conflicts and Convergence in African Development Thinking -- PART II Bring Back the State: From Instability to Consolidation -- 2 The Political Economy of State Reconstitution in Africa -- 3 The Mass Media and Political Stability in Africa: A Utilitarian Theory Approach -- 4 Africa between the Meiji Restoration and the Legacy of Ataturk: Comparative Dilemmas of Modernization -- PART III Building Social Capacity: Civil Society, Democratization, and Human Rights -- 5 Civil Society and Democratic Development in Eastern and Southern Africa -- 6 The State and Human Rights in Africa -- 7 Democratization in Sub- Saharan Africa: Problems, Advances, and Prospects -- 8 Prolegomena to an African-Western Ethics and Theory of Rights -- PART IV Political Economy and the Management of Change -- 9 Toward Democracy and Security in Africa: What Prospects Exist for the Sustainable Development of Civil Societies? -- 10 Nigeria: The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy in a Restructuring Economy -- 11 Women and Sustainable Development in Africa -- PART V Regional Integration and Sustainable Development -- 12 Evaluation of the State of Integration in Africa: How to Strengthen the African Economic Community -- 13 West African Regionalism Revisited: Cooperative Management of the Senegal and Gambia Water Resources -- 14 The Politics of Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Issues, Limitations, and Prospects -- PART VI Conclusion -- 15 Redefining the African State: Political Capacity in the Post- Reform Era -- Index -- About the Contributors.