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Although this reviewer is not a student of public administration, Olaopa successfully takes what some might see as a niche issue and cogently connects it to the broader issues of social justice, human resource development, and economic empowerment on the continent. In sum, Olaopa adroitly demonstrates that Africa will never be ascendant until its collective bureaucracies free themselves from the chains imposed by external forces and from self-imposed maladies and limitations. Olaopa brings to bear a strong command of the theories of public administration, as well as the extant scholarship and research papers from government entities and think tanks. [Extracted from the article]

Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400-1700 Second, Head carefully tracks the political and cultural attitudes toward the affordances of records that simultaneously contributed to and emerged from these shifting documentary practices. Head also highlights more successful projects, whose shared trait, he argues, was conceptual flexibility, usually enabled by the use of a registry system, something Head singles out as a key development of early modern Europe. [Extracted from the article]