| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 1129 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Africa in the changing global order : the past, the present, and the future -- Part I. Historical foundations of Africa and the world. Africa's contributions to world civilization -- Africa and the world before the Second World War -- Africa and the world after the Second World War -- Colonialism, coloniality, and colonial rule in Africa -- Africa and the diaspora -- The African diaspora in the United States -- Part II. Africa and global knowledge production. African Indigenous knowledge systems and the world -- Coloniality of being, imperial reason, and the myth of African futures -- African voices and Black spaces : confronting knowledge in white man's IR -- Epistemologies of the South and Africa's marginalization in the media -- The influence of globalization in positioning African Indigenous knowledge and learning system -- Ubuntu : the political paradigm Africa should endorse to impact the global community -- Ancient knowledge and the right to development -- Part III. Africa in the global economy. The new scramble for Africa -- Shifting centers of coloniality of power : the scramble for African mines and minerals -- It is still extractive imperialism in Africa : Ghana's oil rush, extractive exploitation, and the unpromising prospects of resources-led industrialization -- Sub-Saharan Africa in the international trading system : understanding the recent trends -- Africa in global trade -- Africa in global trade : tracking performance and mapping future pathways -- Global governance of finance and African relations with the world -- Aid-dependence and the emancipation of Africa -- Between heterochthonous Laissez-Faireism and autochthonous organic farming : Africa's Lazarus global food security challenges -- Global public policy paradigms and the socio-economic transformation trajectories of Africa -- Part IV. Africa in international relations. The African Union's pursuit of Pax Africana : from continental cadet to globally revered Generalissimo? -- Seeking African agency in global clubs -- The monologue on liberal democracy : Africa in a neocolonialized world -- Environmentally diplomacy and the fallacy of climate bandwagoning in Africa -- The European Union's emergency trust fund for Africa and challenges of addressing irregular migration in the global south : the Nigerian example -- Europe after Brexit and possible implications for African region -- Sino-African relations and trends for the post-Covid-19 global order -- "Look East" and look back : lessons for Africa in the changing global order -- Changing narratives of human rights -- Part V. Africa in global security conflict and peacebuilding -- Africa and the restructuring of the United Nations Security Council -- Africa in peacekeeping operations in a changing global order -- The war on terror and securitization of Africa -- Africa's search for sustainable security in an emergent global order -- The European Union and the African regional security outlook in the twenty-first century : Gains, challenges, and future prospects -- Piercing the veil of non-interference doctrine : China's expanding military footprint in Africa -- Africa's transitionssal justice system in a changing global order : the "allure" of Rwanda's Gacaca transitional justice system -- Reconstructing global security and peacebuilding in Somalia's changing context -- Unipopularity, emerging powers, African security and the place of Africa in the international system 1993-2017 -- Part VI. Africa and global religions and creativity. Beyond riots : Africa's Fela Kuti and his one man political protest in the changing global order -- African Pentecostalism in a changing economic and Democratic global order -- Pentecostalism and the African diaspora : a case study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in North America -- "Return my power, or you die!" Charismatic church and political leaders hankering for what in Africa? -- Reimaging women ritual space : gender and power dynamics in African religion -- Spatial navigation as a hermeneutic paradigm Ifa, Heidegger and Calvino -- Opium or elixir? How adherence to major world religions influence Africans' health-related behavior during a pandemic : a case study of Nigeria -- Part VII. Africa and global leadership. Diplomacy and politics -- The world of literary writers -- African academic leaders and public intellectuals -- Global African business leaders |
| Summary |
This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people, the book underlines the centrality of the African continent to global knowledge production, the global economy, global security, and global creativity. Bringing together perspectives from top Africa scholars, it actively dispels myths of the continent as just a passive recipient of external influences, presenting instead an image of an active global agent that astutely projects soft power. Unlike previous handbooks, this book offers an eclectic mix of historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a more holistic view of the many aspects of Africas relations with the world. Samuel O. Oloruntoba is Adjunct Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada and President, African School of Governance and Policy Studies, Pretoria, South Africa Toyin Falola is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001553
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Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Oloruntoba, Samuel O. (Samuel Ojo), 1970- editor.
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Falola, Toyin, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030774813 |
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3030774813 |
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