Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

The 1990s were marked by democratic reforms throughout Africa, which went in tandem with decentralization reforms. The chapters of the volume all highlight the gradual changes that have taken place since. Long-term structural uncodified factors – be it societal, economic, geographic, demographic – seem to have interacted with the constitutional clauses introduced during the reforms.

Some chapters look at how decentralization slowly gave way to recentralization because none of the new subnati...