Jean-Francois Bayart. 1993. The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly. New York: Longman.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor John Dunn
Preface to the English edition
Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: The Genesis of the State
1. The shadow Theatre of Ethnicity
2. The Unequal State: 'Little Men' and 'Big Men
3. The Bourgeois Illusion
4. The Opportunity State

PART TWO: Scenarios in the Pursuit of Hegemony
5. Conservative Modernisation or Social Revolution? The Extreme Scenarios
6. The Reciprocal Assimilation of Elites: The Hypothesis of an Intermediate Scenario
7. The Formation of a Postcolonial Historic Bloc

PART THREE: Political Action
8. Entrepreneurs, Factions and Political Networks
9. The Politics of the Belly

Conclusion: Of Terrors and Men
Notes
Index