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Author : Tanya Lyons,Geralyn Pye
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSC:32106018705233
Author : Ian Taylor,Paul Williams
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415358361
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ask whom these attempts have benefited and failed.
Author : R. Modi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230316812
This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that the continent has to offer.
Author : Obika Stanley O
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798880385713
From the Sahara to World Power: Africa's Ascendance on the Global Stage "From the Sahara to World Power: Africa's Ascendance on the Global Stage" is a compelling and comprehensive exploration of Africa's transformative journey from a continent often overshadowed by narratives of poverty and conflict to one emerging as a vibrant force in the global arena. Spanning history, culture, economics, and politics, the book weaves together a rich tapestry of stories and analyses to offer a nuanced portrait of a continent on the brink of significant global influence. Across its 28 chapters, the book charts Africa's evolution, beginning with the vast, enigmatic expanse of the Sahara, through the dark times of colonial exploitation and the struggles of post-colonial adjustment, to the vibrant, tech-savvy Africa of today that stands as a beacon of growth, innovation, and resilience. Each chapter delves into key themes and sectors pivotal to Africa's rise, including the impact of technological leapfrogging, the revolution in renewable energy, the cultural renaissance, and the critical roles of governance, education, and healthcare in shaping the continent's future. The narrative is enriched with case studies, personal stories, and insights from leaders and ordinary citizens alike, painting a vivid picture of a continent in transformation. The book does not shy away from the challenges that Africa faces, from political instability and infrastructural gaps to climate change. Instead, it presents these hurdles as part of the continent's journey, exploring how they are being navigated with ingenuity and determination. "From the Sahara to World Power" is as much a celebration of Africa's achievements as it is a realistic assessment of the road ahead. It offers a visionary outlook on Africa's potential to not only catch up with but also lead in various global discussions, from sustainability and innovation to governance and cultural influence. Intended for a global audience, the book aims to inform, inspire, and challenge perceptions. It is a must-read for policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and anyone interested in the dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Through its pages, the reader is invited to rethink Africa's place in the global order and consider the continent's vast potential as a powerhouse of the future.
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Lindah Mhando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 1611630851
Julius K. Nyerere rose to global greatness in what was at the time one of the poorest countries in the world. He led the way in uniting two countries into one (Tanganyika and Zanzibar) and emerged as in the vanguard of the struggle against colonialism and apartheid. He also became one of the most eloquent voices of the Global South in its demands for fairness and justice in the global economy. This collection of essays captures Nyerere's invention of a new indigenous ideology (ujamaa), his promotion of an indigenous language policy (Kiswahili), his remarkable influence in Pan-African politics, and Nyerere's special place in the history of the 20th century. Because the essays were written across time, they capture the unfolding narrative of continuity and change. This volume also demonstrates how a political leader could be humble enough to avoid ostentation, scholarly enough to translate Shakespeare into an African language, and great enough to help change the African continent forever. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "...[I]t is genuinely a useful book for all those seeking inspiration in 'their struggles to transcend dependency.' It is of importance to all students and those interested in understanding Tanzania and Africa." -- Conrad John Masabo, African Studies Quarterly
Author : Robert Mudida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000416589
The book is very policy-oriented and fills an important gap in the literature on policies related specifically to the dialogue of civilisation in a globalized world. Deals with cross-cutting issues in economic integration, conflict management, human rights and sustainable development. Addresses challenges such as religious extremism, environmental problems, and political unrest.
Author : John W. Harbeson,Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000892086
Africa in World Politics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African states on an increasingly turbulent world stage. Africa in World Politics has long served as the go-to resource for students of African politics seeking to navigate the continent’s complex political and economic landscapes. Updated throughout, this new edition includes new chapters on the unprecedented challenges the continent faces from climate change and the fallout of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Adding to existing coverage of international diplomacy, peacebuilding, women in politics, and the building blocks of political economy, the book also includes expanded coverage of the role of China in Africa, and fresh perspectives on decolonization. Drawing together insights from some of the world’s leading scholars of African politics, this textbook is an essential read for advanced students of political science and African studies.
Author : Jake Bright,Aubrey Hruby
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466868724
The Next Africa, an Axiom Best Business Book Award winner, will change the way people think about the continent. The old narrative of an Africa disconnected from the global economy, depicted by conflict or corruption, and heavily dependent on outside donors is fading. A wave of transformation driven by business, modernization, and a new cadre of remarkably talented Africans is thrusting the continent from the world's margins to the global mainstream. In the coming decades the magnitude of Africa's markets and rising influence of its people will intersect with other key trends to shape a new era, one in which Africa's progress finally overshadows its challenges, transforming an emerging continent into a global powerhouse. The Next Africa captures this story. Authors Jake Bright and Aubrey Hruby pair their collective decades of Africa experience with several years of direct research and interviews. Packed with profiles; personal stories, research and analysis, The Next Africa is a paradigm-shifting guide to the events, trends, and people reshaping Africa's relationship to the world. Bright and Hruby detail the cross-cutting trends prompting Silicon Valley venture capital funds and firms like GE, IBM, and Proctor & Gamble to make major investments in African economies, while describing how Africans are stimulating Milan runways, Hollywood studios, and London pop charts. The Next Africa introduces readers to the continent's burgeoning technology movement, rising entrepreneurs, groundbreaking philanthropists, and cultural innovators making an impact in music, fashion, and film. Bright and Hruby also connect Africa's transformation to its contemporary immigrant diaspora, illustrating how this increasingly affluent group will serve as the thread that pulls the continent's success together. Finally, The Next Africa suggests a fresh framework for global citizens, public policy-makers, and CEOs to approach Africa. It will no longer be "The Hopeless Continent", nor will it become an overnight utopia. Bright and Hruby offer a more nuanced, net-sum, and data-rich approach to analyzing an increasingly complex continent, reconciling its continued challenges with rapid progress. The Next Africa describes a future of a more globally-connected Africa where its leaders and citizens wield significant economic, cultural, and political power--a future in which Americans will be more likely to own African stocks, work for companies doing business in Africa, buy African hits from iTunes, see Nigerian actors win Oscars, and learn new African names connected to tech moguls and billionaires.
Author : Korwa Gombe Adar,Peter J. Schraeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000116494034
This collection of 13 essays examines the emerging trends in foreign policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in post Cold War Africa and explores the implication of African foriegn policy on the world stage.
Author : Ifedapo Adeleye,Mark Esposito
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319670140
This book highlights the key issues, opportunities and challenges facing African firms, industries, cities and nations in their quest to compete successfully in the global economy. Exploring a topic which has grown in importance as Africa faces a period of subdued economic development, this edited collection takes a unique multi-disciplinary, multi-industry and multi-country approach. The authors provide insights into a broad range of issues, including competitiveness measurement and evaluation, sectoral competitiveness of declining and emerging industries, threats of the ‘Dutch Disease,’ and talent competitiveness. This timely book offers a response to the urgent need for the diversification of economies and the advancement of manufacturing in Africa, appealing to scholars of international business and economics.
Author : Albert Kasanda,Marek Hrubec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000415964
The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole. The first part focuses on the assumptions that are necessary to understand the role of Africa on the global stage, especially from the perspectives of political philosophy and global and international studies. The second part of the book looks at both Afropolitan trends and the limits of Afropolitanism. In the third part the authors focus on specific African global tendencies stemming from the local conditions in several case studies. Traditional and modern politics is connected, problematically, with the current Jihadist organisations in the local African conditions related to unilateralism and global war on terror, for example. The fourth part deals with the relevance of the language ambivalence in relation to global interactions. It examines various views of African philosophy and lays bare the perception of earlier colonial languages in view of their current strength of global action. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, political philosophy, politics and global studies.
Author : Dorothy Hodgson,Judith Byfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520962514
Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world—from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux.
Author : Timothy Murithi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0203803922
Africa's international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day. In the aftermath of colonialism the Cold War became a dominant paradigm that defined the nature of the continent's relationship with the rest of the world. The contemporary forces of globalization are now exerting an undue influence and impact upon Africa's international relations. Increasingly, the African continent is emerging as a vocal, and in some respects an influential, actor in international relations. There is a paucity of analysis and research on this emerging trend. This timely book proposes to fill this analytical gap by engaging with a wide range of issues, with chapters written by experts on a variety of themes. The emerging political prominence of the African continent on the world stage is predicated on an evolving internal process of continental integration. In particular, there are normative and policy efforts to revive the spirit of Pan-Africanism: the 21st century is witnessing the evolution of Pan-Africanism, notably through the constitution and establishment of the African Union (AU). Given the fact that there is a dearth of analysis on this phenomemon, this volume will also interrogate the notion of Pan-Africanism through various lenses - notably peace and security, development, the environment and trade. The volume will also engage with the emerging role of the AU as an international actor, e.g. with regard to its role in the reform of the United Nations Security Council, climate change, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the treaty establishing Africa as a nuclear-free zone, Internally Displaced Persons, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international trade, the environment, public health issues, security, and development issues. This book will assess how the AU's role as an international actor is complicated by the difficulty of promoting consensus among African states and then maintaining that consensus in the face of often divergent national interests. This book will in part assess the role of the AU in articulating collective and joint policies and in making interventions in international decision and policy-making circles. The Handbook will also assess the role of African social movements and their relationship with global actors. The role of African citizens in ameliorating their own conditions is often underplayed in the international relations discourse, and this volume will seek to redress this oversight. Throughout the book the various chapters will also assess the role that these citizen linkages have contributed towards continental integration and in confronting the challenges of globalization.
Author : Robert Mudida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000416596
Since the turn of the century, Africa has been emerging economically, politically and socially and striving to assert itself on the global stage. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of Africa’s struggle to find its unique voice and contribute to the dialogue of international affairs. Highlighting both challenges and opportunities, the book explores the multi-faceted economic, political and social debates that surround Africa’s emergence in a complex, increasingly globalised world. The author provides holistic, complementary and policy-oriented advice to African governments and policymakers on how to cope with new interrelated realities in an age of globalisation. This book will be of great interest to students, academics and researchers in the areas of political economy, international development, global governance, public policy and the international relations of African states. It will also appeal to African leaders, policymakers and governments who seek to increase the ability of their countries to cope with the challenges presented by a globalised world.
Author : J. Mangala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230117303
Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations.