Africa In Chaos

Author : George B. N. Ayittey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0333772342

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Africa in Chaos by George B. N. Ayittey Pdf

In a follow-up to his ground-breaking "Africa Betrayed, " George Ayittey takes up the plight of Africa at the end of the twentieth century. Former UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali once said that Africa was in danger of becoming the lost continent and, on this point, Ayittey thoroughly agrees. As he begins to see countries like Nigeria go over the edge of economic and social disaster, Ayittey uses his formidable powers of analysis to look at the political economy of Africa, the incursion of foreign powers and the relationship of Africa to the world market. He contrasts the indigenous systems of government that existed in Africa before the arrival of Europeans with the colonial and post-colonial systems that were forced on the country and the effect these systems have had on Africa s inability to move forward. Ayittey s view is dark and, as always, his stinging conclusions will infuriate some and invigorate others. Certain to create controversy, "Africa in Chaos" is a must-read for fans of Ayittey s earlier work as well as anyone interested in the world economic scene today. "

Author : G. Ayittey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137122780

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Africa Unchained by G. Ayittey Pdf

In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous institutions which have been castigated by African leaders as 'backward and primitive', Ayittey argues that Africa should build and expand upon these traditions of free markets and free trade. Asking why the poorest Africans haven't been able to prosper in the Twenty-first-century, Ayittey makes the answer obvious: their economic freedom was snatched from them. War and conflict replaced peace and the infrastructure crumbled. In a book that will be pondered over and argued about as much as his previous volumes, Ayittey looks at the possibilities for indigenous structures to revive a troubled continent.

Author : Daniel E. Agbiboa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351234207

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Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities by Daniel E. Agbiboa Pdf

This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised workforce. With attention to the question of what a micro-level analysis of the organisation and politics of informal public transport in urbanizing Africa might tell us about the precarious existence and agency of its informal workforce, it explores the political and socio-economic conditions of contemporary African cities, spanning from Nairobi and Dar es Salaam to Harare, Cape Town, Kinshasa and Lagos. Mapping, analysing and comparing the everyday experiences of informal transport operators across the continent, this book sheds light on the multiple challenges facing Africa’s informal transport workers today, as they negotiate the contours of city life, expand their horizons of possibility and make the most of their time. It thus offers directions for more effective policy response to urban public transport, which is changing fundamentally and rapidly in light of neoliberal urban planning strategies and ‘World Class’ city ambitions.

Author : George B.N. Ayittey
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230341098

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Defeating Dictators by George B.N. Ayittey Pdf

Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist. As a result, millions have died, economies are in shambles, and whole states are on the brink of collapse. Political observers and policymakers are starting to believe that economic aid is not the key to saving Africa. So what does the continent need to do to throw off the shackles of militant rule? African policy expert George Ayittey argues that before Africa can prosper, she must be free. Taking a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Ukraine's orange revolution in 2004 to Iran's Green Revolution last year, he examines what strategies worked in the struggle to establish democracy through revolution. Ayittey also offers strategies for the West to help Africa in her quest for freedom, including smarter sanctions and establishing fellowships for African students.

Author : George B. N. Ayittey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:30063407

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Africa Betrayed by George B. N. Ayittey Pdf

Author : Iyorwuese Harry Hagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051919481

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Leading Africa Out of Chaos by Iyorwuese Harry Hagher Pdf

The genesis of this book was inspired by divine intervention - the unexpected deaths of Abacha and his intended successor, Chief Moshood Abiola, and renewed hope of civilian democracy in Nigeria. The author, a former Cabinet Minister of the Abacha government, here sets out his ideas to combat corruption in Africa, and the corrupt mindset in Nigeria. He argues that only effective, morally scrupulous - 'God-centred' leaders, modelled for example on Mandela and Nyerere, will bring about the necessary democratic transformations, and the end of corruption and dependency.

Author : George Ayittey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047440031

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Indigenous African Institutions by George Ayittey Pdf

George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy.

Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781568586625

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Tropic of Chaos by Christian Parenti Pdf

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Author : Bruce Whitfield
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770107694

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The Upside of Down by Bruce Whitfield Pdf

New edition with updated content In a world shaped by Covid-19 and characterised by fake news, manipulated feeds of information and divisive social-media agendas, it’s easy to believe that our time is the most challenging in human history. It’s just not true. It is a time of extraordinary opportunity. But only if you have the right mindset and attitude. Fear of the future breeds inaction and leads to strategic paralysis. Problem-solvers thrive in chaotic and uncertain times because they act to change their future. Winners recognise that in a world of growing uncertainty, you need to resort to actions on things you can control. A robust mindset is the one common characteristic Bruce Whitfield has identified in two decades of interrogating how South Africa’s billionaires and start-up mavericks think differently. They don’t ignore risk or hope that problems will go away. They constantly measure, manage, consider and weigh up opportunities in a tumultuous sea of uncertainty and find ways around obstacles. If, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller suggests, the stories we tell affect economic outcomes, then we need to tell different stories amidst the noise and haste of a rapidly evolving world.

Author : John F. MacArthur,John MacArthur
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310575729

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Charismatic Chaos by John F. MacArthur,John MacArthur Pdf

Charismatic Chaos thoughtfully and carefully shines the light of Scripture on teaching that is not only gaining massive and loyal television followin, but also leading to disunity on a worlwide scale and promising to fuel controversy for years to come.

Author : Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941920053

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Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila Pdf

Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. Tram 83 is his award-winning and raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.

Author : Nicholas W. S. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108845663

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Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea by Nicholas W. S. Smith Pdf

Shedding light on the historical origins of violence, trafficking, piracy and civil unrest in Somalia, Yemen and Djibouti.

Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857203892

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The State of Africa by Martin Meredith Pdf

Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of natural resources and misappropriation of revenues and aid monies contribute to an impression of a continent beyond hope. How did we get here? What, if anything, is to be done? Weaving together the key stories and characters of the last fifty years into a stunningly compelling and coherent narrative, Martin Meredith has produced the definitive history of how European ideas of how to organise 10,000 different ethnic groups has led to what Tony Blair described as the 'scar on the conscience of the world'. Authoritative, provocative and consistently fascinating, this is a major book on one of the most important issues facing the West today.

Author : William Cunningham Bissell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222558

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Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar by William Cunningham Bissell Pdf

At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.

Author : Diane E. Chido
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 1584875631

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From Chaos to Cohesion by Diane E. Chido Pdf

Prevention is the key to effective policies in Africa, whether the issue is equitable resource exploitation, ethnic conflict, infectious diseases, or famine. African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have moved beyond their initial purpose of a loose confederation of trading partners to become increasingly effective supranational bodies promoting financial, political, and security stabilization in each of their regions. Looking at each of the RECs, their power centers, and areas of weakness, policymakers can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the sometimes symbiotic and often destructive dynamics within and among African states to seek more effective strategic and regional, not national, approaches. This monograph suggests USAFRICOM is uniquely positioned to help design a path to spearhead a pan-African strategy highly likely to have the net long-term effect of attaining considerable competitive advantage for the U.S. economically, militarily, and politically, with a corresponding increase in stability, security, and economic opportunity for the entire continent.