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This book uses Nigeria's Afri-capitalist and South Africa's Ubuntu
Business models as case studies that reconcile the tension between
Africa Rising and Pan African economics, presenting their
convergence as Africa's viable Third Way route to global
development. In presenting Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business as
national, business sector manifestations of a "new" Pan Africanism,
the author explores Africa's "culturalist" path in engaging the
international political economy. This is an African customized
engagement that parallels the alternative models of China's
"market-socialism" and Latin America's "21st C Socialism". All
present alternatives to realist, liberal, and structuralist
standpoints, inclining instead toward constructivist political
economies derived from the perspectives and subject conditions of
African economic histories, socio-cultures, alternative
modernities, and agent-led initiatives.
This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of
social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased
another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who
gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural
application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made
this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a
reference, this study will assist researchers in contextualizing
and thematically examining the structural and resource allocation
of disparity exhibited toward Africana people. This manuscript of
essays is the first its kind. This study incorporates an
interdisciplinary scope to examine the concept of Africana Social
Stratification in the subject areas of: history, political science,
economics, Africana Studies, and social policy.
This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of
social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased
another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who
gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural
application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made
this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a
reference, this study will assist researchers in contextualizing
and thematically examining the structural and resource allocation
of disparity exhibited toward Africana people. This manuscript of
essays is the first its kind. This study incorporates an
interdisciplinary scope to examine the concept of Africana Social
Stratification in the subject areas of: history, political science,
economics, Africana Studies, and social policy.
U.S.-Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama is an examination and
analysis of U.S.-Africa relations during the Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Obama administrations. It covers the entire continent
with an inclusion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Uganda, and
Rwanda. Some of the issues addressed in the analysis include the
militarization of Africa within the context of the war on terror
and the creation of the Africa Command; the Arab Spring and
questions concerning the U.S. role in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya;
the Great Lakes region and the role or lack thereof of the United
States, beginning with a discussion of U.S. support for various
leaders from Mobutu (DRC) to Kabila (DRC) to Kagame (Rwanda), and
Museveni (Uganda) who did and do not act in accordance with the
U.S. policy of encouraging democracy. The role of Africans in
U.S.-Africa relations is examined in the book. For example, many
African leaders expressed their disapproval of the creation of the
Africa Command, and African leaders refused to have it housed on
their soil. The book discusses how African leaders and Africans can
work with the United States to encourage economic development by
establishing and upholding the rule of law, respecting human
rights, and creating and maintaining transparency in the government
and business activities. The role of African-descended people in
U.S.-Africa relations is also addressed in terms of African
American celebrities, scholars, and businesspeople. In sum, it
appears on the surface that the United States has become more
involved in African affairs due to new post-Cold War realities-it
is the only remaining superpower; the war on terror extends to
Africa; more Africans have migrated to the United States; and trade
relations have deepened due to the Africa Growth and Opportunity
Act and the need to import oil and gas from various African
countries. At the same time, the U.S. policy has not veered far
from national security interests and the promotion of democracy
regardless of who is in the White House.
"The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global
Governance "examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global
governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization
and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international
actors. Taking a unique approach, the book seeks to explain the AU
through a theoretical framework referred to as "the African Union
phenomenon," capturing the international organization's efforts to
transform the national politics of Africa as well as to globalize
the practice of African politics. The authors examine Africa's
self-determined international norms and values such as
Pan-Africanism, African Solutions to African Problems, Hybrid
Democracy, Pax Africana, and the African Economic Community to
demonstrate that Africa--the world's least developed region--is
composed of crucial values, institutions, agents, actors, and
forces that are, through the AU, contributing to the advancement of
contemporary global development. The book reveals how in the areas
of cultural identity, democracy, security, and economic development
Africans are infusing new politics, economics, and cultures into
globalization representing the collective will and imprint of
African agency, decisions, ideas, identities, practices, and
contexts. Via a Pan-African vision, the AU is having both regional
and global impact, generating exciting possibilities and
complicated challenges.
U.S. Africa Relations: From Clinton to Obama is an examination and
analysis of U.S. Africa relations during the Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Obama administrations. It covers the entire continent
with an inclusion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
Nigeria, South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Uganda, and
Rwanda. Some of the issues addressed in the analysis include the
militarization of Africa within the context of the war on terror
and the creation of the Africa Command; the Arab Spring and
questions concerning the U.S. role in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya;
the Great Lakes region and the role or lack thereof of the United
States, beginning with a discussion of U.S. support for various
leaders from Mobutu (DRC) to Kabila (DRC) to Kagame (Rwanda), and
Museveni (Uganda) who did and do not act in accordance with the
U.S. policy of encouraging democracy. The role of Africans in U.S.
Africa relations is examined in the book. For example, many African
leaders expressed their disapproval of the creation of the Africa
Command, and African leaders refused to have it housed on their
soil. The book discusses how African leaders and Africans can work
with the United States to encourage economic development by
establishing and upholding the rule of law, respecting human
rights, and creating and maintaining transparency in the government
and business activities. The role of African-descended people in
U.S. Africa relations is also addressed in terms of African
American celebrities, scholars, and businesspeople. In sum, it
appears on the surface that the United States has become more
involved in African affairs due to new post Cold War realities it
is the only remaining superpower; the war on terror extends to
Africa; more Africans have migrated to the United States; and trade
relations have deepened due to the Africa Growth and Opportunity
Act and the need to import oil and gas from various African
countries. At the same time, the U.S. policy has not veered far
from national security interests and the promotion of democracy
regardless of who is in the White House."
It is impossible to study Africa without understanding the debate
about how to study Africa. At last, a book showcases the
complexities and paradoxes of Africa's recent and more distant
history, while avoiding simplistic, Eurocentric conceptualizations
of "black Africa." With this book, Peyi Soyinka-Aiwerele and Rita
Kiki Edozie offer students the background and perspectives they
need to comprehend the dynamics of the continent as well as a clear
path through the current literature and scholarly debate. With a
cross-disciplinary approach that features political, historical,
and economic analysis as well as popular culture and sociological
views on contemporary issues, Reframing Contemporary Africa
provides an unparalleled breadth of coverage. Essays written by a
distinguished and international group of scholars-including William
Ackah, Pius Adesanmi, Susan Craddock, Caroline Elkins, Siba
Grovogui, Mahmood Mamdani, Mutua Makau, Celestin Monga, Wole
Soyinka, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza-are designed to distill original
scholarship for undergraduate readers. Each contribution helps
students engage with the work and arguments of luminaries while
exposing them to renowned African thinkers. Contributors deliver
analysis that allows students to see beyond the cliches commonly
presented in the media (and even in scholarship), and helpful
section openers by Soyinka-Airewele and Edozie frame forthcoming
chapters, giving important thematic and historical context.
Reframing Contemporary Africa will certainly provoke new debate and
reflection, not merely about African issues and politics, but also
about the West and its framing of Africa.
Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization
that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of
'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important
tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the
region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these
new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie
identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the
foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical
analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial
discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to
guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and
performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis
of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same
subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining
democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases
and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from
the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.
The provocative debate about Malcolm X's legacy that emerged after
the publication of Manning Marable's 2011 biography raised critical
questions about the revolutionary Black Nationalist's importance to
American and world affairs: What was Malcolm's association with the
Nation of Islam? How should we interpret Malcolm's discourses? Was
Malcolm antifeminist? What is Malcolm's legacy in contemporary
public affairs? How do Malcolm's early childhood experiences in
Michigan shape and inform his worldview? Was Malcolm trending
toward socialism during his final year? Malcolm X's Michigan
Worldview responds to these questions by presenting Malcolm's
subject as an iconography used to deepen understanding of African
descendent peoples' experiences through advanced research and
disciplinary study. A Black studies reader that uses the biography
of Malcolm X both to interrogate key aspects of the Black world
experience and to contribute to the intellectual expansion of the
discipline, the book presents Malcolm as a Black subject who
represents, symbolizes, and associates meaning with the
Black/Africana studies discipline. Through a range of
multidisciplinary prisms and themes including discourse, race,
culture, religion, gender, politics, and community, this rich
volume elicits insights about the Malcolm iconography that
contribute to the continuous formulation, deepening, and
strengthening of the Black studies discipline.
This anthology presents a new study of the worldwide African
diaspora by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary
scholarship to address the connectedness of Black subject
identities, experiences, issues, themes, and topics, applying them
dynamically to diverse locations of the Blackworld - Latin America,
the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. The book underscores
three dimensions of African diaspora study. First is a global
approach to the African diaspora, showing how globalism underscores
the distinctive role that Africa plays in contributing to world
history. Second is the extension of African diaspora study in a
geographical scope to more robust inclusions of not only the
African continent but also to uncharted paths and discoveries of
lesser-known diaspora experiences and identities in Latin America
and the Caribbean. Third is the illustration of universal unwritten
cultural representations of humanities in the African diasporas
that show the distinctive humanities' disciplinary representations
of Black diaspora imaginaries and subjectivities. The contributing
authors inductively apply these themes to focus the reader's
attention on contemporary localized issues and historical arenas of
the African diaspora. They engage their findings to critically
analyze the broader norms and dimensions that characterize a given
set of interrelated criteria that have come to establish parameters
that increasingly standardize African diaspora studies.
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