Africa in the age of globalisation : perceptions, misperceptions and realities

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Author:

Shizha, Edward, editor, author.

ISBN:

9781472436696

9781472436702

9781472436719

Physical Description:

xxx, 277 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

The international political economy of new regionalisms series

International political economy of new regionalisms series.

Contents:

Introduction: Africa in the age of globalisation / Social and institutional development. Globalisation and Africa: critical historical and deconstructive/reconstructive epistemic reflections / African development post-2015: sustainable agency or reversion to dependency? / Democracy and governance in Africa: lessons from Senegal / Globalisation, sovereign debt and adjustment programmes in Africa: implications for creditors, debtors and policy makers in Europe / Technology and global partnerships. The paradox of broadband access in Sub-Saharan Africa / Aspirations for Senegal: exploring international NGO partnerships / Globalisation, NGOs and multi-sectoral relations: Zimbabwean experience 1980-2012 / China-Japan rivalry in Africa / Gender, migration and settlement. Evidence based policy-making in the age of globalisation: measuring the impact of Chinese investments on women in Sub-Saharan Africa / The cracks and the crevices: Rwandan women in the diaspora navigating gender regimes in Rwanda and Canada / Gender, contemporary realities, and the challenges of reconstructing identities in a transnational context / Education and globalisation in Africa. Demystifying the misperceptions and realities about the efficacy of monograde and multigrade pedagogies: Africa's response to globalisation in education / Revitalising higher education in the age of globalisation: the African dilemma / Globalising education for globalised labour markets: brain drain or gain for Africa

Subject Term:

Economic development -- Africa.

Economic development -- Africa -- International cooperation.

Women in development -- Africa.

Education and globalization -- Africa.

Globalization -- Africa.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

Afrika.

Afrika -- ekonomiska förhållanden.

Added Author:

Shizha, Edward,

Diallo, Lamine, 1958-

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This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide them in planning and implementing programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships and the role of non-governmental organisations). The authors challenge the familiar paradigms in order to show how imperfectly, if at all, assumptions about globalisation and development theories have failed in their depictions and applications to Africa. The scholars in this volume both inform and advocate for a re-visioning of perceptions on Africa and how it navigates global processes.