Private schools are part of a larger trend across the world, in which more and more intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), faith-based organizations, multinational corporations, for-profit businesses, and community-based organizations deliver a range of services that we’re used to getting from the government. For millions of people across the world, health care, education and even basic security come not from their government but from one of these other groups. Political scientists call this the “nonstate provision of goods and services.”
examines nonstate provision of public goods and services in Africa, and how it affects citizens and the state. This case are explored every region of sub-Saharan Africa, including cases in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa and identified a top-five list of things you should know about the politics of public goods in Africa.