In the current phase of democratic backsliding that sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing, neopatrimonialism as a form of political domination gives us a unique angle to rediagnose the fallacious malaise of Africa’s backwardness into a rational-agent model. The sub-Saharan political elites have positioned themselves ideally in a network of patron-client relationships, that draws massive resources from the already buckling African government.
In the current phase of democratic backsliding that sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing, neopatrimonialism as a form of political domination gives us a unique angle to rediagnose the fallacious malaise of Africa’s backwardness into a rational-agent model. The sub-Saharan political elites have positioned themselves ideally in a network of patron-client relationships, that draws massive resources from the already buckling African government.
