State Building In Africa: A Comparative Study of South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

With the impetus of industrialization and the eruption of global economies, the growing disparity between poor and wealthy nations has impelled political scientists to ask why some nations are caused to prosper and others doomed to fail. That is, to investigate what inherent or developed factors determine the political, economic, and social realities of the world. This paper will address the question with regard to state-building in Africa by comparatively examining South Africa and the Dem...