Ike Okonta

The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa's ruling classes to scientific and technological progress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781793613257
• ISBN-10: 1793613257
• Artikelnr.: 58297078

Autorenporträt

Ike Okonta was, until recently, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is Coordinating Fellow of the New Centre for Social Research, Abuja, Nigeria. He is author of Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil (2003) Paperback; When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self-Determination (2008); Biafran Ghosts: The Massob Ethnic Militia and Nigeria's Democratisation Process (2012); The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development (2020)

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Africa's Underdevelopment: Nagging Questions Chapter 2: A
Crippled and Comatose Giant Chapter 3: The Cause of Africa's
Underdevelopment: Conflicting Theories Chapter 4: Africa's Historical
Indifference to Technological Progress Chapter 5: Monarchs of "The
Encounter" and their Feeble Responses to Europe's Superior Technology
Chapter 6: A Blueprint for Africa's Development Chapter 7: The Poverty of
Contemporary African Political Thought