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This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human
security and conflicts in Africa. It recognizes the need for
resources in Africa to be processed into finished goods in order to
influence global market and redefine the pattern of trade relations
with powerful countries of Asia, America and Europe in shaping the
destiny and future of African countries. The achievement of this
laudable objective is plagued by the security challenges which are
directly or indirectly linked to resource-related conflicts rocking
most of the resource endowed countries in the continent, thereby
threatening global peace and security. To deal with this menace in
the continent, it requires global co-operation and support of
foreign governments, international organizations, international
non-government organizations, governments of host countries and its
citizens. The book presents the cases and experiences of countries
that are endowed with resource, as well as have experienced
different forms of human insecurity and have witnessed
environmental conflicts in its analysis, which make the discourse
interesting and quite educating.
This book interrogates the nature of elections and election
violence in the African countries. It traces the causes of the
governance menace to multiple factors that are not limited to
poverty, unemployment, and media. The book documents how election
violence cripples the nation-building process across many African
countries. Consequently, it reveals that states have lost their
manifest destiny of national transformation in Africa because they
cannot guarantee that legitimate candidates, who should win
elections, due to the widespread manipulation of violence at all
levels of electoral engineering. The chapters rely on the cases and
changing dynamics of elections and electoral violence in the
different Nigerian states. It traces the origins of elections, the
nature and patterns of a number of past elections as well as the
roles of youth, judiciary, electoral umpire, social media, and
gender on the changing nature of elections in Nigeria.
In Conflict and Human Security Threats in Africa, South African
scholar Victor Ojakorotu unravels the dynamics of conflicts and
human security threats now affecting numerous African nations.
While some of these conflicts are local, others are national and
international. This current and highly engaging study captures
multiple cases of insecurity, presenting discussions of terrorism,
kidnapping, militia activities, human trafficking, political
violence, teenage pregnancy, civil war, and armed conflicts, as
well as strategies for their future management. Ojakorotu documents
a philosophical assessment of African politics as well as the place
of the "new" media in the politics of human security and the
development of an African worldview in the post-modern intellectual
arena. This book is a must-read for all students of African and
global politics, as well as policy makers and diplomats working
with Africa, which will soon be home to more than three billion
people and a center of global growth.
This work examines the struggle for leadership relevance between
Nigeria and South Africa. An analysis of hegemoic contest between
the two states is provided. Such hegemonic contest is experienced
on continental political and economic issues, this contest between
the two states has overlapped to issues of UNSC reform.This
struggle for relevance has far reaching implications for African
continental Integration.
The Niger-Delta region of Nigeria continues to be a topical area of
concern not only to the Nigerian state; its peoples and government,
but also to scholars and human development agencies globally in
spite of the plethora of studies on the region since the 1990s.
This is essentially because the pervasive crisis of
underdevelopment which underlies various forms of social and armed
conflict in the region remains unresolved.In this light, this book
attempts a peak into the ever unfolding dimensions and trajectories
of human insecurity in the Niger-Delta
Since the 1990s, oil violence in the Niger Delta has constituted
festering sores on the thumbs of the Nigerian state, the
Multinational Oil Companies (MNOCs), and the Niger Delta
communities. The deployment of physical force by the dramatis
personae in petro-business, for the achievement of their respective
goals with regards to the appropriation of crude oil and its
accruable benefits had continued unabated until the granting of
general amnesty to the armed non-state actors, by late President
YarAdua on 25 June 2009. Cognizant of the fact that the earlier use
of amnesty by the Nigerian state as a strategic state policy for
diffusing oil violence only resulted to the de-escalation of
conflict without an enduring peace, this edited book is therefore,
a contribution to the search for durable panaceas for checkmating
the resurgence of oil violence in the Niger Delta. The various
writers analytically interrogated the variegated issues pertaining
to oil violence and proffered solutions for the advancement of
lasting peace, security and stability in the region. This
compendium should therefore be very useful to students, scholars,
diplomatic professionals, statesmen and policy makers.
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