%0 Journal Article
%T Dysfunctional State and Severance in Africa: An Analysis in Specificities and Contradictions
%A M Biereenu-Nnabugwu
%A J Nwanegbo
%J OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies
%D 2012
%I 
%X This paper identifies and examines two interrelated contradictions that affect Africa¡¯s contemporary material existence. They are dysfunctional or inorganic state and its structures and manipulated severance from Africa¡¯s roots. The paper aligns with the quest for a platform that provides more than a cursory prism for veritable insight into specificities and contradictions in the context of contemporary Africa. Anchored in Alavi¡¯s theory of overdeveloped state, the paper is essentially an exploratory analysis of Africa¡¯s concrete situation.
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