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Author Sall, Ebrima

Title Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century : Keynote Addresses delivered at the 13th General Assembly of CODESRIA
Published Dakar : CODESRIA, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (91 pages)
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities; Global Issues, Global Challenges; Africa of the Twenty-first Century; The Casablanca Conference, 50 Years on; 1. The Challenges facing Africa in the Twenty-first Century; 2. Development in a Turbulent World; Limits to the Current Neoliberal Growth and Development Strategy; Development Strategies for the Future; 3. The Political Economy of Transformation in Zimbabwe: Radicalisation, Structural Change and Resistance; Introduction: Radicalism, Structural Change and Reform
Historical context of the Fast Track Land ReformRadicalised Land Reform Movement: Decentralised, Anti-Bureaucratic Alliance; Structural Reform, Renewed Developmentalism and Economic Nationalism; State Interventionism, Indigenisation and New Developmentalism; New Agrarian Movements: Rural Cooperativism and Democratisation?; Concluding Remarks: Lessons from Zimbabwe; Notes; References; 4. Out of Africa: Aid versus Capital Flight; 5. Let My Work Not Be in Vain: Doing Matriarchy, Thinking ""Matriarchitarian"" with Africa in the Twenty-first Century; South Africa; The Nile Valley
Contexts and Meeting PointsLeadership at the grassroots; Conclusion; Reference; 6. On the Postcolonial and the Universal?; Notes; References; Back cover
Summary The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: "Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century". Some of the reasons that influenced the choice of this theme were to do with how Africa should position itself in the new global political and economic order in the context of an increasingly complex neoliberal globalisation. Changes in intercultural relations at the global level, climate change, poverty, rapid urbanisation, the ICTs revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world and the phenomenon of emerging powers of the South are some of the realities of our world that are widely and extensively discussed by both academics and policy-makers. This book contains the statutory lectures of the 13th General Assembly. Each one speaks to major challenges that African and the Global South are facing in this second decade of the Twenty-first Century: neoliberal globalisation, capital flight, the land question, gender relations, with a particular focus on matriarchy; and universalism
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Subject Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Africa -- Congresses
Globalization -- Political aspects -- Africa -- Congresses
Globalization -- Economic aspects
globalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
Globalization -- Economic aspects
Globalization -- Political aspects
Africa
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 2869786581
9782869786585