International NGO Journal

This role of civil society in many African countries has been viewed as seeking to create an enlightened and informed citizenry.In order to strengthen their resolve and speak with a stronger voice in their engagement with the state as well as to mobilise their membership, civil society organisations (CSOs) have developed a tendency of forging linkages and working relations among themselves culminating in the formation of coalitions.Forging linkages has been out of the realisation that merging and aligning their operations would enable the different civic groups to find common ground on which to engage the state and their membership, including the civilian population.This paper seeks to establish the extent to…