Beschreibung
Over the last decade West African villages, rural towns, and urban
neighbourhoods have experienced changes resulting from democratisation and
decentralisation processes. While much hope was invested in
decentralisation policies in the 1990s, today there is a need to look at
everyday decentralisation practices. In this volume, authors of different
scholarly backgrounds focus on political, economic and cultural aspects of
decentralisation. By exploring party politics, water provision, schooling,
territorial division and cultural understanding the case-studies highlight
core stakes and fundamental contradictions of present-day decentralisation
in West Africa.
