Dynastic Rule in Equatorial Guinea
Foreward by Joseph Mangarella
Published on 21. February 2018
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Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-613-8-23513-2 (ISBN)
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The emergence of hereditary republican dynasties is part of a regional trend, raising concerns about the decline in democracy, government accountability, nepotism, and grand corruption. Second generation dynasts now rule in Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Gabon, and Togo. Often treated as exceptional aberrations, or theorized under other conceptual tools, this essay examines Equatorial Guinea as a case of dynastic republicanism.
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Douglas A. Yates is a professor of African Studies at the American Graduate School in Paris who has researched and written six books about Gabon, the oil industry, and French African policy, including most recently the Historical Dictionary of Gabon (2018), The Scramble for African Oil (2012) and Oxford Bibliography article on "Dynastic Rule".