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    It is not the case that Many African states face collapse or debilitating dysfunction

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    • 1.Afro-optimist scholars like Celestin Monga document measurable democratic consolidation across sub-Saharan Africa since the 1990s wave of multiparty reforms.
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    • 2.Aggregating diverse nations into a single narrative of dysfunction commits the ecological fallacy, masking substantial variation in state capacity across the continent.
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    • 3.States like Botswana, Rwanda post-1994, and Cabo Verde demonstrate institutional stability that falsifies claims about African governance as categorically collapse-prone.
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    • 1.Walter Rodney's framework establishes that current dysfunction is structurally produced by ongoing extractive relationships with former colonial powers, not endogenous African failure.
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    • 2.A claim framing African states as facing collapse without foregrounding this causal history reproduces what Achille Mbembe calls the 'colonial library' of deficit-centered African representation.
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    • 3.Philosophical claims about institutional failure carry explanatory obligations; omitting structural causation renders the diagnosis analytically incomplete and normatively distorting.
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    • African nations struggle against corruption, crippling economic exploitation, massive underdevelopment of human capital (particularly of females), scarcities of vital resources, and campaigns of genocide rooted in ethnic conflict
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