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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.
Kwame Nkrumah's Political Kingdom and Pan-Africanism ReInterpreted,
1909-1972 provides an in-depth study of the life of the late
Pan-African leader from the former Gold Coast, Kwame Nkrumah.
Authors A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh analyze Nkrumah's
life from his birth on the Gold Coast through his studies in the
United Kingdom and the United States, his activism and political
life, and his exile and death. Throughout, Assensoh and
Alex-Assensoh present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of
Nkrumah's Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as
well as Black liberation within the African continent and the
United States and Caribbean diaspora.
The global rise in pandemics, most recently COVID-19, and other
health challenges, some of which are due to climate change, have
imposed significant challenges on the healthcare systems in
economies around the world. Thus, this book deals with an issue
that is very timely and relevant, not just in Africa but globally.
It critically assesses healthcare reforms in Ghana under the Fourth
Republic, since 1993. Although it focuses on Ghana's National
Health Insurance Scheme of 2003, the book instructively goes beyond
this program. The book argues that, although Ghana is a bellwether
of healthcare reforms in Africa, its healthcare initiatives are
still far from the service haven of healthcare as a human right.
Themes that animate the book's argument include the need to
translate human rights law, such as the right to health, into
practical policies that work for ordinary citizens. Key highlights
of the book include an increased accent on health as a human right,
emphasis on comparative analysis in healthcare studies, and the
formulation of a four-hallmark framework, embedded in economics,
law, politics, and human rights, to act as a guide for assessment
of healthcare reforms in Africa in particular, and Ghana more
specifically. Using Ghana as a case study and analytical window
into the world, the book offers a valuable and timely resource for
academics, students and policymakers across the disciplines of
development and healthcare economics, law, public policy, political
science, sociology, and African and Caribbean studies, as well as
in various fields in health science.
This book employs a fiction-based approach to address the revolving
door of Black faculty and staff in American colleges and
universities as a national crisis that needs to be resolved
systematically. Alex-Assensoh coins the acronym SOULS to promote
the importance of safety, organizational accountability,
unvarnished truth telling, love, and spirituality as the
foundational ingredients for reimagining and rebuilding an Academy
that harnesses the talents of Black faculty and staff. Chapters
feature storytelling to illustrate common cracks in academic
structures while interweaving interdisciplinary research to
contextualize themes that the fiction-based method reveals. To
conclude, the author provides a research-informed call to action
within the context of institutional transformation, as well as
reflective questions and recommendations for further reading.
This fresh biography unearths previously unpublished nuances about
Malcolm X's life. Malcolm X: A Biography is a historical and
political analysis of the black leader's life and times, offering a
detailed treatment of its subject's multifaceted story. Laid out
chronologically, the book treats Malcolm's life from his birth
through his childhood, adult life, work as a Civil Rights activist,
and assassination. Readers will learn about the torching of
Malcolm's family's Lansing, MI, home when he was a young child and
about the death of his father a few years later-both acts
attributed to a white supremacist organization. They will learn of
his participation in narcotics, prostitution, and gambling rings
and of his arrest and prison term. And they will learn about his
discovery of the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah
Muhammad, his conversion to the Muslim faith, his break with NOI,
and his eventual espousal of faith in integration. Finally, the
book looks at Malcolm's assassination and at his legacy and
importance today. Photographs An exhaustive chronology
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