John Mbaku

Africa at the Crossroads

Between Regionalism and Globalization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mbaku, Saxena, and their contributors examine the problems faced by Africa as it decides what to do to improve its ability to contribute to and benefit from the new globalization. Today, the continent stands at a crossroads; it must choose between joining the new global society and pursuing a process of internal self-reliance. The dilemma the continent faces is how to participate in and benefit from the new global economy as well as retain and also benefit from its emerging regional economic and political schemes. The book is written by a group of highly skilled and committed Africanists and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa as well as on improving Africa's ability to participate in and benefit from the new globalization and how to achieve the type of peaceful coexistence in Africa that will enhance economic growth and development. It contains a refreshing, vigorous, and informative analysis of poverty alleviation strategies in the continent, how to achieve lasting peace and enhance the peaceful co-existence of population groups, and how to improve the continent's ability to participate more effectively in the new globalization. It emphasizes the importance of good policies and laws and institutions not only to peaceful coexistence, but also to sustainable poverty alleviation strategies. As Africans prepare themselves and their societies for the new globalization, it is critical that they provide themselves with governance structures that are locally-focused, and that enhance peace and sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9780275980207
• ISBN-10: 0275980200
• Artikelnr.: 21649338

Autorenporträt

JOHN MUKUM MBAKU is Professor of Economics at Weber State University. He is the Associate Editor (Africa) of the Journal of Third World Studies and President of the African Educational Foundation, Inc. SURESH CHANDRA SAXENA is Reader (Retired) in the Department of African Studies, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Acronyms Africa at the
Crossroads: Introduction by John Mukum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena
Africa at the Crossroads of Globalization by Emmanuel Nnadozie
Globalization and Popular Disenchantment in Africa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh A
Tale of Three Images: Globalization, Marginalization, and the Sovereignty
of the African Nation-State by Paul L. Ebioze Idahosa Regionalism and
Regional Cooperation in Africa: New Century Challenges and Prospects by
Paul-Henri Bischoff The New East African Union: A Defense and Security
Organ as the Missing Link by P. Godfrey Okoth From OAU to African Union:
Africa's Giant Step Towards Continental Unity by Suresh Chandra Saxena
Fighting Poverty and Deprivation in Africa: The Continuing Struggle by John
Mukum Mbaku Internet Connectivity and Development in Africa: Look Before
You "Leapfrog" by Lyombe S. Eko Decentralization and Privatization
ofInfrastructure by Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Wilson S. K. Wasike Beyond
Rhetoric: Peacekeeping in Africa in the Millennium by Korwa G. Adar
Cultural Diversity and the Search for Lasting Peace in Africa;
Consociational Democracy Revisited by Ufo Okeke Uzodike State Repair and
Democratic Development in Africa by 'Kunle Amuwo Ethnicity, Agonism of
Difference and National Imagining in Post-Colonial Africa by Nantang Jua
The Struggle for Stability in Nigeria's Contemporary Politics (1990-1999)
and the Lessons for the Fourth Republic by E. Ike Udogu Imperialism and
Militarialisme in Africa: The Political Economy of French Arms Sales and
Military Intervention, 1960-1890 by Immanuel Tatah Mentan Selected
Bibliography Index