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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxii, 331 pages) :) : illustrations, map.
- Summary
- It has been long overdue to address the principal problems that Africa continues to have. How to bring real African solutions to these problems remains unresolved. Palaeontologists have discovered that Africa is the origin of humanity. Africa has also experienced the commodification of its humanity through slavery, colonialism and apartheid. The African continent has been influenced by a melange of races, cultures, religions, ethnic nationalities making the project of how the differences can be managed to forestall conflict and promote the unity of the current 54 states to turn the cacophony of noises into a single voice that can protect Africa a difficult challenge. This book on Regenerating Africa: Bringing African Solutions to African Problems addresses why Africans must come together and try to address their own problems. They must look back to the spiritual, struggle and knowledge heritage to re-imagine and innovate a new Africa with leadership, governance, systems and institutions that can address the security and well-being, the employment, social inclusion, poverty eradication and the equality of the people. In fact the key problem to find a solution is how to Africanise those that originated from Africa and those that became settlers with different racial, cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic variations. How to manage inter-African relations? How the settlers from the colonial legacy, the apartheid legacy, the Arabs in Africa and the varied tribes within Africans can all share being Africanised above all else is a real challenge to bring lasting solutions to Africa's enduring problems. This book is one of the few books that addresses the real problems Africa continues to face by suggesting solutions which policy makers and all Africans must learn and never ignore but use to advance a free, united, renascent, proud and dignified independent Africa in this unpredictable time the world is going through. The contributors address in the book how African solutions to African problems in the current global context to create a sustainable African future can be thought, designed and engineered to advance the well-being of people and nature for all. The African Unity for Renaissance series of conferences that over 10 partners contributed to run is the true source for generating the quality papers that have been peer reviewed to constitute the contributions in the book to make African solutions to African problems in reality and not just in talk.
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- Regenerating Africa (Online)
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Contents
- Introduction : the African journey to provide African solutions to African problems / Mammo Muchie, Vusi Gumede, Samuel Oloruntoba and Nicasius Achu Check -- 1. The African renaissance as pan-African agency : some conceptual implications of an African solutions doctrine / Chris Landsberg -- 2. Regional hegemons as catalyst for continental integration : Nigeria and South Africa in Africa's integration and development / Samuel Oloruntoba and Vusi Gumede -- 3. Youth unemployment and social development / Nkhensani Valoyi and Philippian Bomboy Taku -- 4. The construction of the person and personality in Africa / Kimani S.K. Nehusi -- 5. Away from the brink : the AU intervention in the crisis of democratic institutionalisation in post-Arab Spring Egypt / Ufiem Maurice Ogbonnaya and Osinimu Femi-Adedayo -- 6. War on Terror in Africa from below : challenges and prospects of people's participation / Bolaji Omitola -- 7. Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi genocide : beyond the forgetfulness and silences of coloniality / William Mpofu -- 8. Coloniality and the challenges to African solutions to African conflict problems / Douglas Munemo -- 9. Being African and innovative : a decolonial perspective / Morgan Ndlovu -- 10. The quest for gender parity as an essential aspect of social development : restoring the centrality of the African woman and achieving the vision of African solutions to African problems / John W. Forje -- 11. Impediments to development and integration in the central African subregion : some reflections / Nicasius Achu Check -- 12. Global politics of knowledge production and the African development trajectory : the imperative of epistemic disobedience / Tendayi Sithole, Samuel Oloruntoba and Akhona Nkenkana -- 13. Science, technology and empowerment : a pan-African approach / John Trimble -- 14. Sustainable pastoral livelihoods at a crossroads : broken system resilience and institutional disenfranchisement among the Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia / Boru Shana Gufu -- 15. The African Union and mediated peace in Africa : a case of political unrest in Burundi / Eric Blanco Niyitunga -- 16. The mantra of African solutions for African problems : a new perspective in continental conflict and security management / Ferdinand O. Ottoh -- conclusion : identity and diversity for African unity and renaissance / Mammo Muchie, Vusi Gumede, Samuel Oloruntoba and Check Achu.
- OCLC
- ssj0001818570
- Title
Regenerating Africa [electronic resource] : Bringing African Solutions to African Problems / Mammo Muchie, Vusi Gumede, Samuel Oloruntoba and Nicasius Achu Check (eds.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Pretoria, South Africa : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Access restricted to authorized users.
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Check, Nicasius A. (Nicasius Achu)
Oloruntoba, Samuel O. (Samuel Ojo), 1970-
Gumede, Vusi.
Muchie, Mammo.
Project Muse.
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Print version: 9780798305006