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It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a
constitution and another to enforce such policies off paper. This
book explores the contradictions between interpretations of
constitutional tenets and the dogmas contained in the penal code of
Islamic North Africa-particularly in regard to Algeria, Egypt,
Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Provided are brief histories of each
country that connect the colonial past to present-day human rights
records. The author also suggests ways in which to mitigate human
rights infractions to advance peaceful coexistence that could
promote political and economic development.
Nigeria is a bellwether, in an enormous continent, endowed with
natural resources and human capital, whose development and
greatness have been marred by political instability since gaining
home-rule from Britain in 1960. The contemporary political,
economic, and social quandaries that have stultified Nigeria's
growth project flows from difficulties in cultivating patriotic
leaders with pluck to enact efficacious policies that will catapult
the country to greater heights developmentally. Nigeria in the
Fourth Republic: Confronting the Contemporary Political, Economic,
and Social Dilemmas, edited by E. Ike Udogu, examines some of the
vital issues responsible for the current political malaise and
recommends strategies for exculpating the country from her current
political quagmires. The contributors to this book argue, inter
alia, for the avoidance of false starts reminiscent of the military
interventions that aborted the democracy project and advocates the
enactment of effective policies to supersede decision dictated by
politics. This volume proposes national healthcare strategies to
address the country's healthcare needs and for dialogue to
extinguish combustible inter-religious conflicts. The book
recommends ways to assuage police highway malfeasance and explains
why human rights observance is critical to further national
cohesion while creating space for the subalterns to have their
voices heard in discourses on how to advance peaceful coexistence.
This book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront
in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters
in this volume-written by experts on this subject-matter-examine
and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville,
Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa.
This book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some
form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist
movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for
many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this
volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and
political integration and how the contradictions between both
philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in
order to attract internal and external investments critical for
developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the
need for Africa's adaptation to the ideology and practice of
capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of
African states in a projected federal United States of Africa;
solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes
of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of
information communication technologies and urgent need to
strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would
provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in
communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social
democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United
States of Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an impressive measure of
economic revivalism that is driven by both national and
international forces at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
That political and business leaders in the region are determined
that development in this millennium will not mimic the slow pace of
growth in the twentieth is a given. Undoubtedly, the rapid spread
of information communications technology (ICT) and contemporary
investments of China in the region s growth agenda bear this thesis
out. This book, among other things, advances the theory that
improving human rights practices and the democracy project i.e.
democratic consolidation in sub-Saharan Africa will create an
enabling environment that is critical for stimulating the current
inspiring development objectives."
African Renaissance in the Millennium frames a critical debate for
the essential and necessary transformation of Africa in this epoch.
E. Ike Udogu highlights how the political, social, and economic
development enterprises are to be vigorously pursued in order to
advance the continent's renewal. Bringing into focus the discourses
that are significant to move the continent forward, the author
provides possible strategies that might lead to peaceful
coexistence, development, and generation of wealth for the area's
recovery. After several decades of policy missteps, inadequate
government, ethnic and religious conflicts, and civil war, Africa
is in need of this resurgence.African Renaissance in the Millennium
is a book appropriate to all levels of students and researchers
with an interest in Africa's future.
While the specific focus of this work is African American politics
in the 'margins' of the South, this timely work examines minority
and ethnic politics in rural America and other democratic
societies. More importantly, this study explores the politics of
everyone with a racial and ethnically diverse rural root_and how
the majority versus minority political competition is played out in
society. Unlike most books on national, state, and local
governments, African American Politics in Rural America is
concerned with theory and political actors_particularly their
perceptions, frustrations, and, sometimes, satisfaction with the
complex processes of governance at the grassroots level in American
politics.
After World War I, the League of Nations assigned management of the
German colony of Namibia to Britain, which passed control to South
Africa as a "trophy" for the country's support during the war. The
League mandated that South Africa prepare the country for
independence, but South Africa showed no sign of working toward
that goal. The clash over interpretation of the League's mandate
led to 70 years of complicated diplomacy to solve the dispute. This
incisive volume offers an in-depth analysis of the political and
diplomatic efforts undertaken by representatives of the United
Nations, Namibia, and South Africa--with the assistance of the
international community, the Organization of African Unity, and
Western powers--during the struggle for self-rule in Namibia from
1920 to 1990. This classic example of conflict resolution technique
in global and African studies provides a useful template for
conflict negotiation around the world.
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