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1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) |
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FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION:Africa in the Global Space; AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SPACE; FOREIGN AID AND ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN STABILITY IN THE GLOBAL SPACE; ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; SECTION I:NATION-STATE, IMMIGRATION AND THE DIASPORA; 1. THE AFRICAN STATE:Can the Future be Stable?; INTRODUCTION; STATEHOOD AND THE DIFFICULTY OF CREATING STATES; COPING WITH THE COMPOSITION AND DIVERSITY OF STATES; ESTABLISHING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICAN STATES |
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THE CHALLENGES OF REFORMING AFRICAN STATESCONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 2. TRIALS OF NATIONAL COHESION:Root Causes of Violence in Côte dÍvoire; INTRODUCTION; FROM 'AKANITÉ' TO 'IVOIRITÉ' OR THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE; ETHNO-RELIGIOUS UNDERPINNINGS OF 'IVOIRITÉ'; "IVOIRITÉ," ITS IMPLICATION AND VIOLENCE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3. WORKING WITH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES IN THE DIASPORA THROUGH A UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK:A Community Development Model; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY COLLABORATION; THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE COMMUNITY; AFRICANS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA |
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UCC WITH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES: MOBILISING LEADERSIMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LESSONS LEARNED; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4. GLOBALISATION, GLOBALISED LABOUR MARKETS:Migration and Translocations in Sub-Saharan Africa; INTRODUCTION; GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR MARKETS; GLOBALISED MIGRATION AND TRANSLOCATIONS; TRANSLOCATIONS AND TRANS-CITIZENSHIP; IMMIGRATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION II:CHALLENGES AND PROPOSITIONS TO DEVELOPMENT; 5. EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT:An Africanist Postcolonial Perspective; INTRODUCTION; A COMPROMISED MEANING OF DEVELOPMENT |
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CRITICISMS OF HEGEMONIC DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSEUNIVERSALISATION OF SELECTED HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT; DISTORTED CONCEPTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT; THE DIALECTIC CONNECTION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6. GLOBALISATION, FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options; INTRODUCTION; GLOBALISATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS; GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION IN SSA; IS AID BASIC TO DEVELOPMENT?; CONCLUDING REMARKS |
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""What are the benefits and risks for Africa's participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Space is a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa's image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa's reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa's internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid |
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REFERENCES7. CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC) : Responses in the Age of Globalisation; INTRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE IN SADC IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION; SADC'S RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 8. HEALTH AS AN AGENT FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT:From Colonialism Architectures to Renaissance; INTRODUCTION; LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE PROBLEMS; THE PLAGUED HEALTH MDGS: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF RENAISSANCE OF AFRICA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES |
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World politics -- 21st century.
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Africa -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570 -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Africa -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001548 -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012478
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Africa -- Strategic aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001577
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Electronic book
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Shizha, Edward, editor
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9462098360 (electronic bk.) |
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9789462098367 (electronic bk.) |
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