Renwick, Robin. 2018. How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa. London: Biteback Publishing /Auckland Park: Jacana Media. 232 pp. ISBN 9781431426652

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Skalní­k, P. (2024). Renwick, Robin. 2018. How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa. London: Biteback Publishing /Auckland Park: Jacana Media. 232 pp. ISBN 9781431426652. Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, 12(1), 101–107. https://doi.org/10.26806/modafr.v12i1.517
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Petr Skalní­k, Independent researcher, Czechia

He is founding editor of Modern Africa and a political anthropologist and Africanist specialising in state and chiefdom studies. Educated in Prague, Leningrad, and Cape Town, he has taught at universities in Central and Western Europe and in South Africa. He carried out fieldwork in Ghana and in southern Africa and was a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). His edited work includes Africanists on Africa: Current Issues (2010), Africa: Power and Powerlessness (2011), Actors in Contemporary African Politics (2013). Serving as Ambassador to Lebanon in 1992–97 and as Vice-President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) from 2003 to 2013, he was awarded Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2006. E-mail: skalnik.petr@gmail.com

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