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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction -- Dangerous Crossing or What?; Building Tomorrow's Africa Now; Power generation potential for select Sub-Saharan African countries; The Paradox of Africa's Democracy and Good Governance; Awakening Civil Society; The Latecomer Advantage; References; Chapter One -- Africa's curse and blessings: The mineral resource and manufacturing paradigm: An analytical, developmental and comparative perspective approach within the context of FOCAC |
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Introduction: Annexation and Plundering or Power and Benefit-SharingAfrica and FOCAC: The "Blame and Reality" Theories; China and FOCAC: The Dragon's Rapid Changing Structure; FOCAC: A Conduit for Change!; Courting the Beautiful Maiden -- Setting the Scene; Resources, Investment and Trade: The Pull and Push Factors; Unlocking Africa's Mineral and Manufacturing Debacles; The Afro-Centric, Euro-Centric or Sino-Centric" Approach; The SWOT "Ubuntu and Harambee" Spirit -- Lessons for FOCAC; Preventive Precautionary Measures: Is Indigenisation the Answer?; Writing on the Wall -- Which Script and Way? |
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Conclusion: The Absence and Search for a Holistic CompassSharpening and Respecting Africa's Ploughshares; References; Chapter Two -- Wrong education reinforces exploitation, inequality and underdevelopment: What Africa must do; Abstract; Introduction; Conceptual Construct -The Overarching Purpose Facing the Perils of Education Underdevelopment; Unlocking the human-resources potential: strategy, innovation and change; Quality versus Quantity; The scourge of unemployment: An avenue for migration; Conclusion: Decolonising and truimphically moving forward; References |
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Chapter Three -- Debunking Africa's golden age of scientific evolution: Exploiting the latecomer advantage in building the Africa we want: Opportunities, challenges and prospectsAbstract; Introduction: General overview -- looking back to moving forward; Conceptual and analytical premises; Interface between Indigenous Knowledge & Science, Technology and Innovation; Imperative of African Co-operation -- "TSHUMISANO"; By way of conclusion -- The road ahead; Recommendations; References |
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Chapter Four -- Articulating a new public sector reform: Towards enhancing governance and services delivery in Africa. Challenges and prospectsAbstract; Introduction: The search for a new way; People's Governance as Prelude to Quality Services; Fashioning an Afro-centric approach; Conclusions: Shaping our future and celebrating diversity; Recommendations; References |
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Chapter Five -- Repositioning Africa's public administration within the context of achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 & African Union (AU) Agenda 2063. Challenges and prospects for constructing the Africa we want |
| Summary |
The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world go to bed hungry there can be no peace. A sting rich world and a sting poor world cannot cohabit peacefully. How to build a more equitable and balanced world is the challenge facing us. We need to embrace and practice our long-aged concepts of 'ubuntu', 'harambee' and 'batho pele' among others in creating, and consolidating the new world order. Africa is underdeveloped. It requires serious structural modification in our current mindset, thinking and actions which calls for total involvement of every citizen. The ideas advanced in this book are strategies and pathways for dealing with the problems of poverty, corruption, the distribution of power, deterrence, good governance, health, human capacity building and the challenge of bringing about a systemic structural-functional governance construct for the African continent |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2019) |
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Cost and standard of living -- Africa
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Economic development -- Africa
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Social planning -- Africa
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African history.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African.
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Cost and standard of living
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Economic development
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Social planning
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9956551481 |
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9789956551484 |
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