Download or read book The Future of Africa written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.

Download or read book African Futures 2050 written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa written by Paulin G. Djité and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and political emancipation.

Download or read book African Futures 2050 The Next Forty Years written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph the Institute for Security Studies and the Pardee Center for International Futures provide an extensive analysis of the projected course of African development to 2050. Combining the deep and wide knowledge of Africa within the ISS with extensive use of the IFs modelling system, this discussion goes beyond past work in a number of ways. It looks across most major issue arenas: demographics, economics, sociopolitical change, the environment and human development itself, including health and education. It explores further into our future than perhaps any other extensive study of African futures has ever done. While not pushing forward specific policy initiatives, it provides a context within which those who pursue sustainable human development can consider policies.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics written by Célestin Monga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from the necessary quantity and quality of physical and human capital to the appropriate institutions and business environments. While intellectually charming and often elegantly formulated, that conventional wisdom is actually contradicted by historical evidence and common sense. It also suggests a form of intellectual mimicry that posits a unique path to prosperity for all countries regardless of their level of development and economic structure. In fact, the argument underlining that reasoning is tautological, and the policy prescriptions derived from it are fatally teleological: low-income countries are by definition those where such ingredients are missing. None of today's high-income countries started its growth process with the "required" and complete list of growth ingredients. Unless one truly believes that the continent of Africa-and most developing countries-are ruled predominantly if not exclusively by plutocrats with a high propensity for sadomasochism, the conventional view must be re-examined, debated, and questioned. This volume-the second of the ^lOxford Handbook of Africa and Economics-reassesses the economic policies and practices observed across the continent since independence. It offers a collection of analyses by some of the leading economists and development thinkers of our time, and reflects a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints. Africa's emergence as a potential economic powerhouse in the years and decades ahead amply justifies the scope and ambition of the book.

Download or read book West African Studies West African Perspectives Resources for Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a cross-cutting analysis of the main development challenges for the West African region and offers suggestions on how to meet them.

Download or read book African Futures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

Download or read book Afrique 2025 written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afrique 2025 est une réflexion collective menée par Futurs africains, un projet du Programme des Nations unies pour le développement. Elle ne prétend pas dire ce que devrait être l'Afrique de demain. Son objectif est d'explorer les futurs possibles pour l'Afrique au sud du Sahara. Plus de mille Africains répartis dans 46 pays, femmes et hommes, anglophones et francophones, venant des horizons les plus divers, ont été impliqués dans cette exploration. Ils ont d'abord dressé un état des lieux sans complaisance de l'Afrique au début du XXIe siècle, puis ils ont construit quatre scénarios pour les vingt-cinq prochaines années, des scénarios sans langue de bois, ni tabous, auxquels ont été donnés des noms imagés : Les lions pris au piège, Les lions faméliques, Les lions sortent de leur tanière, Les lions marquent leur territoire et ils ont réfléchi aux conditions qui devraient être réunies pour que l'un ou l'autre de ces scénarios devienne réalité. A l'heure du NEPAD et de la naissance de l'Union africaine, les Africains, notamment les hommes politiques, les responsables d'ONG, les entrepreneurs, les leaders d'opinion, les chefs religieux, ont à choisir leur voie et à prendre leurs responsabilités. Le coup de projecteur sur les avenirs possibles que propose Afrique 2025 leur sera utile, et il sera utile aussi aux hommes des autres continents qui souhaitent les aider à progresser dans la voie qu'ils auront choisie. Ces travaux ont été impulsés et coordonnés par Alioune Sall. Jacques Giri a joué le rôle d'observateur extérieur et a assuré leur mise en forme finale.

Download or read book Africa Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa = Revue trimestrielle du conseil pour le développement de la recherche economique et sociale en Afrique.

Download or read book To Write the Africa World written by Achille Mbembe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent. This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century. To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.

Download or read book L Arch ologie du Futur Cin mas Africains et Utopies written by Viviane Azarian and published by Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis ses origines, le cinéma est lié à l'histoire dans une double perspective rétrospective et prospective, qu'il soit geste d'appropriation du passé par la mémoire ou qu'il soit mouvement d'anticipation du futur. Ainsi, la création filmique en Afrique se situe dans la tension entre d'une part, archéologie, histoire et mémoire, et d'autre, part avenir et utopie. Les contributions invitent à réfléchir à la dimension "préemptive", pour reprendre une expression de Patrice Nganang, des cinémas africains, leur capacité à répondre à l'urgence en même temps qu'à anticiper. Elles s'articulent également autour de l'idée d'une continuité temporelle repérable dans les formes cinématographiques entre passé, présent et futur selon la double modalité de l'actuel et du virtuel. Since its beginnings, cinema has been connected with history and this in a double respect: in a retrospective perspective appropriating the past by remembering or in a prospective - "pre-emptive" in the words of Patrice Nganang – perspective – that anticipates future. Thus, the making of films in Africa is situated between archaeology, history and remembrance on the one hand and future and utopia on the other hand. The contributions analyse the prospective dimension of African films, the ability to react to important questions of its respective times as well as to anticipate them, as films are based on the idea of a time continuum linking past, present and future using a documentary and a virtual modality.

Download or read book Africa s Critical Choices written by Dunod Editeur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines contemporary Africa, a vast continent which, while entering the era of globalization, is also confronted by a number of issues, including the environment and climate change, demographics, trade issues, internal and external migration, education, economic Issues, governance, and the influence of other countries. Written by former Prime Minister of Niger and current Chief Executive Officer of the Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, this book offers an overview of Africa, and looks to the next generation of leaders in the continent, aiming to offer a manifesto for future change.

Download or read book African Studies Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Africa Recovery written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tolerance Democracy and Sufis in Senegal written by Mamadou Diouf and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations. The anthology provides a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, illuminating the complex trajectory of the Senegalese state and reflecting on similar postcolonial societies. Offering rare perspectives on the country's "successes" since liberation, the volume identifies the role of religion, gender, culture, ethnicity, globalization, politics, and migration in the reconfiguration of the state and society, and it makes an important contribution to democratization theory, Islamic studies, and African studies.

Download or read book The Bibliography of Africa written by James Douglas Pearson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources written by World Conservation Union and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers. Considered the most forward looking regional agreement of the time, it influenced significantly the development of environmental law in Africa. Two and a half decades of intense developments in international environmental law made it necessary to revise this treaty, update its provisions and enlarge its scope. This was undertaken under the auspices of the African Union (previously OAU), and the revision was adopted by its Heads of State and Government in July 2003 in Maputo. The introduction provides an overview of this new international treaty, as well as a commentary to each of its provisions.