Rethinking Institutions, Processes and Development in Africa

Introduction: Institutions and Development in Africa / Ernest Toochi Aniche & Toyin Falola -- Reflections on Powers of Trade Union Federations in Democracies: A Comparative Discourse / Jerry Mmanoko Mathekga -- The Nigerian Education, Industry and Bureaucracy: The Counsellor's Perspective / Ngozi Joy Maduka -- Privatization of the Electric Power Sector and Service Delivery in Nigeria / -- Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada, Nneka Ifeoma Okafor & Christopher Ewuzie Obianagwa -- The Relevance of Creativity Economics of Contemporary Nigerian Diaspora Art on Political Socialization / Timothy Olusola Ogunfuwa -- Emerging Democratic Institutions and Culture in Africa: Challenges and Prospects / Toyin Falola -- Historicizing Development and the Dilemma of Adopting Western Models in Nigeria / Cinderella Temitope Ochu -- Local Government-State Joint Account and Crisis of Grassroots Development in Nigeria / Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, Ifeanyichukwu Micheal Abada & Paul Hezekiah Omeh -- Nigeria and the Neo-colonial Dilemma: Rethinking the Challenge of an Unfinished Business / Obinna Innocent Ihunna -- Urban Redevelopment as Metaphor for Gentrification in the Making of a Mega-City: The Forced Displacement of Otodo Gbame/Ebute Ikate Community, Lagos State / Alabi Bamidele -- Railway and the Transformation and Modernization of Kafanchan, 1927-1993 / Gaius Jatau -- Institutions, Inequality and Crisis of Developmental Regionalism in Africa / Ernest Toochi Aniche -- Trade Institutions, Trade Regimes and Challenges of Food Security in West Africa / Emeka C. Iloh, Ifeanyi P. Maduechesi & Chukwuemeka V. Muoneke.