State making centers on citizenship yet requires leadership as its driving force

Evidence

Broadly defined, the state encompasses four key pillars: leader, regime, administrative apparatus, and collective consciousness. My argument is that collective belonging in the form of citizenship is at the heart of state making and the most precarious and difficult to create; nonetheless, leadership is the piston that can transform a nation’s potential into real progress. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 83

Categorization

• DEFINE: The author defines the state via four pillars (leader, regime, administrative apparatus, collective consciousness) and singles out citizenship-creation and leadership as critical.