| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African Studies |
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African Studies
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Fifty Years of African Liberation: Promises, Challenges and Failures -- Introduction -- Trade -- Pre- and Post-Independence Challenges -- Countries Case Studies -- Foreign Aids -- What Africans Should Do -- Consolidate Nation States -- Profits from Foreign Direct Investment -- Abolish the Military -- Budgetary Control -- Reverse Migration of Africans -- The West's Obligations to Africa -- The Fifty Year Verdict -- The Role of Academic/Intellectual Organizations -- The Military in Africa -- Conclusion: Hope for the Future? -- References |
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Chapter 2 -- Reexamining the Victory of the Battle of Adwa: A Pan-African and Post-Independence African Perspectives -- Introduction -- Pan-Africanism -- The Battle of Adwa -- Post-Adwa and the Pan-African Movement -- Adwa and Its Implications to Pan-Africansim -- Reexamining Adwa: Implications to 21st Century Africa -- General Observation -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Half A Century of Pro-Democracy Uprisings in Africa's Experience: From Sharpeville to Benghazi -- The Death of Passive Resistance -- Phase I: The Anti-Colonial Phase of Africa's Struggle |
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Phase II: The Struggle Against Racial Minority Governments -- Phase III: The Struggle for a More Pluralistic Constitutional Order -- Phase IV: The Struggle for Full Democracy by Popular Uprising -- The Tunisian Style -- The Egyptian Precedents -- The Libyan Legacy -- Dual Africanity: Of the Blood and of the Soil -- Yearnings of Yemen -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Liberia and Africa Since Decolonization, 1950s to 2012 -- Introduction -- The Tubman Administration and Africa -- The Tolbert Administration and Africa -- The Doe Administration and Africa |
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The Taylor Administration and Africa -- Johnson Sirleaf Administration and Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 -- The Politics of Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Problems and Prospects -- The Background -- Politicization of the Land Reform and Party Conflicts -- Economic Implications -- Impact of International Media on the Land Issue -- Social Relations (Gender and Class) -- Environmental Effect of the Land Reform -- Land Reform and the International Response -- Prospects on the Land Issue -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 |
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The New South Africa and Africa: Almost Two Decades After Liberation -- Introduction -- The Dawn of a Delayed Giant -- The New South Africa and the Management of Racial Relations -- The New South Africa and Regional Politics -- The New South Africa and Continental Politics -- Conclusion: The Future of South Africa -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Sudan: Peace, Development and the US Constituency for Africa -- Introduction -- The Political Dynamics of Conflict in Sudan -- Congress and US Policy toward Sudan -- African American Members ofCongress and US Sudan Policy -- Conclusion -- References |
| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Encyclopedias
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barnett, Arthur, editor
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| ISBN |
9781536172355 |
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1536172359 |
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