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A QUARANTINE FOR THE AFRICAN STATES? - The Failure of the Centralized State: institutions and self-governance in Africa edited by James S. Wunsch and Dele Olowu, Boulder, San Francisco, and Oxford, Westview Press, 1990. Pp. viii+334. £22.50 paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Adigun Agbaje
Adigun Agbaje
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Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 723 - 727
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