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Title:The myths and realities of administrative reorganisation in the public services of West Africa
Author:Koroma, J. SanphaISNI
Year:1972
Periodical:Kroniek van Afrika
Issue:1
Pages:10-19
Language:English
Geographic terms:English-speaking Africa
West Africa
Subject:administrative reform
Abstract:The colonialists in Africa have reorganised the then existing bureaucracies. Today, African governments are looking for a middle ground between the disrupted traditional African bureaucracies and the modern western bureaucracies. In this search the West African governments create and operate through myths of reorganisation on the one hand, while the realities of administrative reorganisation, on the other hand, where they are manifest, have come hard. This paper examines the myths and realities of the reorganisation effort: it isolates the impediments and the successes of administrative reorganisations in the Englishspeaking states of Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The conclusion is that rather than administrative reorganisation preventing friction, it is friction that evokes administrative reorganisation, and rather than administrative reorganisation defending constitutional guarantees, it is constitutional crises that necessitate administrative reorganisation. Notes.
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