Globalization and Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st Century

Globalization and Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st Century
Author: Kidane Mengisteab
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1996
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN: 9780865435599

African economies are the most dependent and the most marginalised in the global system. Prevailing policies to integrate these economies more closely with the global economy are, in the view of many misplaced and this work presents a series of alternative strategies that will tap the energies of the African people to develop their own potential and reduce their dependence on World Bank/IMF-led approaches.

Africa and Globalization

Africa and Globalization
Author: Kelebogile T. Setiloane
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2020-10-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030553515

This edited volume examines the challenges of globalization in light of the need to revisit and reconceptualize the notion of Pan-Africanism. The first part of the book examines globalization and Africa’s socioeconomic and political development in this century by using the Diopian Pluridisciplinary Methodology. This approach is imperative because the challenges faced by Africa vis-à-vis globalization and socioeconomic development are so multiplexed that no single disciplinary approach can adequately analyze them and yield substantive policy recommendations. The chapters in the second part analyze the imperatives for Africa’s global knowledge production, development, and economic transformation in the face of the pressures of globalization. Part two demonstrates an urgent need for Africa’s significant participation in the global knowledge economy in order to meet the continent’s modern transformation and development aspirations. The final part examines lessons from old and new Pan-Africanism and how they can be utilized to deal with the challenges emanating from the forces of modern globalization. With its multidisciplinary approach to a wide range of pressing, modern issues for the African content, this book is essential reading for scholars across the social sciences interested in where Africa is now and where it should go in this increasingly globalized world.

Setting of New Social Science Research Agendas for Africa in the 21st Century

Setting of New Social Science Research Agendas for Africa in the 21st Century
Author: Lily Mafela
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9994455664

New social science research agendas for Africa in the 21st century / Lily Mafela and Herman Musahara --Africa's poverty eclipse : will the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) dissipate it? / Jephias Matunhu --Attracting foreign direct investments (FDIs) into Africa : a discussion of rationales, approaches, results and impacts in Tanzanian context / Honest Prosper Ngowi --Africa and globalization : the case of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between EU and Africa / Donald Chimanikire --The impact of China on the economies of sub-Saharan Africa : opportunites, challenges and prospects / Humphrey P.B. Moshi --Institutional reforms for sustainable agricultural and rural development in Africa : the case of Rwanda / A.M. Jose and M.A. Lizy --Electoral authoritarianism and democratic governance in Ethiopia / Merera Gudina --HIV/AIDS and agrarian processes in Kenya : a case study of the Luo of Kombewa Division, 1983-2003 / Samwel Ong'wen Okuro --The cultural construction of sex and condom use in Eritrea / Abbebe Kifleyesus --Cultural and gender dimensions in business negotiations / Grace M. Kibanja and John C. Munene --Investing in Africa's high-level human resource : the challenges and paradoxes of implementing cost-sharing in higher education policy in Tanzania / Johnson M. Ishengoma.

Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty-First Century

Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Singumbe Muyeba
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008-02-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 146789981X

Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty First Century: A Zambian Perspective is a journey through space and times from Zambia, to Sub Saharan Africa, to the World and Back. It brings out from the author’s experiences growing up in Sub Saharan Africa during the 1990s, the ills in Zambian culture that manifested as a result of the effects of Structural Adjustment Programmes and how Zambia, once a rich and promising country became one of the poorest Nations in the world’s poorest region. As for Sub Saharan Africa’s survival in the twenty first century, Muyeba powerfully argues that without a transformation in the culture of its people, without surplus productivity and without international cooperation, the chances for survival in the twenty first century will continue to diminish even as they are already low.

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century
Author: E. Ike Udogu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010-02-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1443820504

Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of African States in the 21st Century frames the discourse around the important issue of African unification, against the backdrop of the region’s political and economic marginalization. Arguably the richest continent in the world, in terms of its abundant untapped natural resources and human capital, it still lags behind the other regions of the world developmentally. Undeniably, Africa is at the crossroads in this millennium, within the context of the powerful events and effects of the “New Globalization.” One of the central issues that academics and political actors, interested in African development, must tackle immediately is how to make the region politically and economically relevant in global affairs. These objectives could be attained through continental amalgamation. Accordingly, this book debates and suggests, inter alia, strategies that might advance Africa’s unification effort in order to provide the politico-economic clout needed to spur continental development. Further, it argues that such a Union of African States is critical for promoting the “good political life” for all Africans.

Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa

Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa
Author: Bessie House-Soremekun
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1580463924

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

Integral Polity

Integral Polity
Author: Ronnie Lessem
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2016-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317115449

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an ’integral’ notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such ’integrality’ with, and between different ’southern’ and ’eastern’, ’northern’ and ’western’ worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.

Africa and the New Globalization

Africa and the New Globalization
Author: George Klay Kieh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2016-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131718453X

Globalization is not a new phenomenon in the international system. However, the various phases of globalization have had divergent scopes, actors, dimensions and dynamics - that is, each of the phases of globalization can be differentiated according to these terms. Against this background, this book focuses on the 'new globalization', a phase that emerged when the Cold War ended and which is, significantly, the most expansive and technologically advanced of all the phases of globalization. The contributors identify and discuss many of the frontier issues in Africa that are being impacted by the dynamics of this new globalization - debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The volume will hold particular interest for students, scholars and researchers of African and development politics.

African Development and Global Engagements

African Development and Global Engagements
Author: Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2023-05-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031212835

The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa’s developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled ‘Conference of Parties’ (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible ‘vaccine nationalism’ that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the ‘begging continent’ one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.