African renaissance : roadmaps to the challenge of globalization

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Author:

Fantu Cheru, 1949-

ISBN:

9781842770863

9781842770870

9780864865922

Personal Author:

Fantu Cheru, 1949-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; Cape Town : David Philip ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.

Physical Description:

xv, 253 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Africa and the Globalization Challenge -- Ch. 2. Renewing and Restoring Democracy in Africa: A Herculean Task -- Ch. 3. Reforming African Education for the Twenty-first Century -- Ch. 4. Agriculture and Rural Development -- Ch. 5. Rethinking Regional Economic Integration: From Rhetoric to Reality -- Ch. 6. The Urban-Rural Interface: Managing Fast-growing Cities in Africa -- Ch. 7. Rebuilding War-torn Societies and Preventing Deadly Conflicts -- Ch. 8. Concluding Remarks: A Wake-up Call to Fellow Africans.

Subject Term:

Globalization.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-

Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-

Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2001026991.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol031/2001026991.html

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Summary

How can African countries escape from marginalization, deepening impoverishment and state disintegration in the new era of globalization? Fantu Cheru draws on his experience of many different countries to argue for a way beyond the simple state-led versus market-driven approaches to Africa's development. The international financial institutions must stop their heavy handed interventions and let countries decide their own development paths. African countries must work within the reality of globalization to renew democracy and improve governance; invest in education; revitalize agriculture, manage their cities, strengthen regional economic integration, and prevent yet more deadly conflicts. These require commonsense and non-dogmatic approaches, learning from local successes, entrepreneurship, and a new generation committed to a new kind of politics.