The Future of Nation - States in Africa Beyond the 21st Century

The Future of Nation - States in Africa Beyond the 21st Century
Author: Dr. Thomas Otieno Juma (PhD)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

This paper underscores that nation-states are very important fabrics of polity given that their existence and form determine and shape them for sovereign endowments and ultimately international politics. The future of nation-states hinges on their historical formation and progressive efforts put in nurturing their being. In asking what makes states exist or disappear and whether nation-states exist in Africa becomes a good starting point in building a thought into this thesis. In addition to this, the author would want to find projections of future existence of nation-states in Africa 21st Century and secondly, carrying out a politico-surgical analysis of African states and nation-state formations after independence. With this limited yet wide in scope summaries are made. The study finds this subject appealing because the concept nation-state seems to portend a gap in knowledge as currently used. This makes their existence is an issue for political scientists and other disciplines and more so in the African parlance. This will open a prism through which therefore the future of nation-states in Africa can be viewed now whether in stable units or through likely disintegrations of federalism or secession in the 21st century. The research will employ a qualitative inquiry on the basis of written material available and relevant to the thought which shall then be reviewed in context, form, and content to arrive at conclusions.

The Imminent Rise of West Africa

The Imminent Rise of West Africa
Author: Kofi Osei Takyi-Mensah
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1514409283

When the time has come for a new society to make inroads in developing better and sustained living standards for its mass people, its unique creation and growth of its wealth, and its prominent impact upon humanity, it has to go beyond and push the boundariesand this leads to creating a distinct and an efficient society. It is properly understood that no earthly and heavenly power can deny a peoples aspiration whose time has come to formulate bona fide solutions for their chronic challenges, long-lasting crises, and for a better extension of humanity in this moment, and the time to come. The future has arrived. For the purpose of West Africa to be realized and fulfilled, West Africa needs to unite into a sovereign state with a federal republic government to create a distinct and an efficient federal nation inside West Africa called the African States Union (ASU). The ASU would have the capacity to undertake huge and complex tasksthe institution of this new democratization of economic development. This concept is to build diversified economic educational tropolis (edu-tropolis) in every designated school district with a university. Most of the universities will be super universities designed as the epicenter of the local economic free zone. The institution of the edu-tropolis will be a remarkable help to accelerate the modernization of infrastructure in the new ASU federal community, such as the initiative of wiring the entire new ASU federal society for high-speed Internet access and building the complex modern transportation infrastructure, the high-speed rails that crisscross between the edu-tropolis economic school district hubs in the entire new nation. The introduction of the twenty-first-century democratic system, the centurys monoparty democratic system, would transform the African political landscape. Here are some of the basic principles: (1) no political party formation, (2) all political candidates register and campaign for public office solely under their respective individual names, (3) legally institute a fourth branch of government, the electoral branch of government. The essential role of linguistic diversity in engineering the wealth of the new West African society is the introduction of the new twenty-first-century multilinguistic ideas and policies. Set up a commission with the clear mission of creating a federal republic in West Africa through a peaceful, timely, and smooth process.

Nigeria and the Nation-State

Nigeria and the Nation-State
Author: John Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538197812

Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.

Africa in the 21st Century

Africa in the 21st Century
Author: Ama Mazama
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2007-11-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135906580

Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. In original essays, the authors raise the level of discourse around the questions of integration, pluralism, families, a federative state, and good governance. Each writer sees in the continent the potential for greatness and therefore articulates a theoretical and philosophical approach to Africa that constructs a victorious consciousness from hard concrete facts. This book will interest students and scholars of the history and politics of Africa as well as professional Africanists, Africologists, and international studies scholars who are inclined toward Africa.

Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa

Challenges to the Nation-state in Africa
Author: Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.

Global Trends 2040

Global Trends 2040
Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646794973

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

State Building

State Building
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847653774

Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.

Globalisation and the Nation-state

Globalisation and the Nation-state
Author: Frans Buelens
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Although officially welcomed as a major contribution to world welfare, economic globalization is held by many to be responsible for low wages and mass unemployment. This text questions the seemingly inevitable progress and questions whether the state is a powerless institution.

Our Continent, Our Future

Our Continent, Our Future
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 155250204X

Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.