ABSTRACT
The evidence appears to point to the fact that more than forty years of independence have failed to improve the living conditions of the African peoples. Many African countries are engaged in a transition to new and more democratic dispensations. In attempting to provide post-Cold War Africa with more effective economic infrastructures, many policymakers have placed most of their emphasis on privatization. In most African countries, privatization has been imposed on the people by multilateral agencies and donor countries. Privatization is being used by many countries in Africa as the main instrument of economic transition to more market-oriented resource allocation systems. The chapter highlights the government should protect the lives, liberties, and properties of its citizens from both domestic and foreign aggressors. It looks at the challenges posed by the transfer of certain state functions to the private sector and how a process would affect governance in the continent in the new century.
