Legacies of Power

Professor Roger Southall is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and was formerly Professor of Political Studies, Rhodes University and has also and researched in academic institutions and think-tanks in Lesotho, Uganda, the UK and Canada. Dr Henning Melber headed the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek and was a member of the Presidents Economic Advisory Council from 1992 to 2000. Previously the Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, he is currently the Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjold foundation.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

148mm x 210mm

Pages:

352

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2120-8

Publish Year:

2006

Rights:

World Rights

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: About life after presidency – Roger Southall and Henning Melber

1 Former presidents in Africa – Roger Southall, Neo Simutanyi and John Daniel

2 Soldiering on: the post-presidential years of Nelson Mandela 1999 – 2005 – John Daniel

3 Unpacking the model: Presidential succession in Botswana – Kenneth Good and Ian Taylor

4 The contested role of former presidents in Zambia – Neo Simutanyi

5 ‘Presidential indispensability’ in Namibia: Moving out of office but staying in power – Henning Melber

6 “When I am a century old’: Why Robert Mugabe won’t go – David Moore

7 Toxic mushrooms: The presidential third term debate in Malawi – Sean Morrow

8 Politics and presidential term limits in Uganda – Roger Tangri

9 Immunity or accountability? Daniel Toroitich arap Moi: Kenya’s first retire president – Tom Wolf

10 Troubled visionary: Nyerere as a former president – Roger Southall

11 Rawlings’ former presidency: A threat to democracy in Ghana? – Kwame Boafo-Arthur

12 An army of ex presidents: Transitions, the military and democratic conslidation in Nigeria – Sola Akinrinade

13 Despot Desposed: Charles Taylor and the challenge of state reconstruction in Liberia – Daniel Hoffman

Appendix

Contributors

Index

Doreen Atkinson was a Research Director with the Human Sciences Research Council. She was based in the Bloemfontein office of the HSRC during the time of the study. She has research and consulting experience in the following fields:

Local Government
Rural Development
Intergovernmental Relations
Constitutional Development
Water and Sanitation
Local Economic Development
Monitoring and Evaluation
Health Delivery

Her publications during the last five years, include From a Tier to a Sphere: Local Government in the New South African Constitutional Order (co-edited with Maxine Reitzes, published by EISA and Heinemann Press, 2000); Rural Development Framework, for the Free State Provincial Government; and A Pathway to Sustainability: Local Agenda 21 in South Africa (co-edited with Penny Urquhart, for the Department of Environmental Affairs, 2001). She was working on municipal capacity-building, especially in the light of the implementation of IDPs; as well as the development of municipal capacity in commercial agricultural areas during the time of the study.