Local Government Administration in Eastern and Southern Africa

Local Government Administration in Eastern and Southern Africa offers a comprehensive, comparative exploration of local governance across nine diverse countries: Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. This volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine the evolution, structure and transformative potential of local government in a region marked by both shared challenges and unique national trajectories. This scholarly work provides depth pertaining to the substance, context and form of the local government system for these eastern and southern African countries covered in this book.