The Specter of Anarchy: African States Verging on Dissolution

Beset by a horrendous economic predicament, Africa is today also haunted by a dreadful political nightmare: now that the winds of democracy are sweeping the continent, it looks as if tyranny might give way to anarchy. The term is used here in its literal sense, to denote a nearly total absence of constituted authority that leaves a country’s contentious elements to fend for themselves. Anarchy is no mere figment of the white racist imagination, but a realistic description of the conditi...