This course is designed to study theoretically and empirically contemporary Politics of Africa. It is a study of African states and their domestic politics, laying emphasis on state-society interactions, governance, governing ideologies, forms of social (ethnic) and political pluralism, monopolization of political and economic power, popular resistance to power, connections, disruptions, and fractures from global politics, chronic underdevelopment and political repression of citizens, the rise of active polities, and the uses and abuses of cultural ties amid dynamism and pervasive violence. In fine, we shall interrogate the processes, institutions, ambiguities, antinomies and contradictions of African politics. The course also involves a study of the many theoretical and epistemological approaches developed to address the issues of African politics.