Dark Clouds on the Horizon:

Some Developmental Changes Facing Africa

W Forje

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9789956552351
• eBook ISBN: 9789956553853
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Colonialisme et post-colonialisme

This book brings to the fore some critical and fundamental issues plaguing the continent of Africa. It is a symbolic microcosm of challenging issues that Africa has and must address. Can Africa reverse the dark odds and can it move towards a united and integrated whole? The book explores the untold events and negative trends on the economic, social, political, humanitarian and environmental scene in Africa which leaves the international community perceiving Africa through darkened lenses. It tells the dark tragedy of a people ? the economy of alienation and disempowerment as it also injects an encouraging metaphor that the key to the solution of Africaís perennial socio-economic-politico transformation rests primarily and decidedly in the hands of African governments and people. Africans are challenged to stop ëtinkering with the problemí but take a progressive Afro-centric approach to effectively address the fate of democracy, management and development in Africa which are closely intertwined. A wide range scope of issues is covered in the preface and the various chapters. The book puts the reader and people in the mode of the tenacity of maintaining a vision of remaining live to the ideals of a progressive Afro-centric agenda that continuing fighting for African development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgement
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Innovation That Matters: Towards Pro-Poor Innovation - Putting Public Policy and Values into Science and Technology for The Benefit of All in Emerging Polities
• Chapter 2: Decolonisation and Re-colonisation through the Political Economy of African Foreign Policy Challenges, Prospects and the Way Forward
• Chapter 3: Rethinking Science, Technology, Innovation and Development Facing the Good, Bad and Ugly
• Chapter 4: The Interface Between the University, Research Institutes and The Private Sector as Appropriate Technological Link for Africa’s Developmental Take-Off. Changing Attitudes, Changing Behaviour and Pushing Forward Sustainable Development
• Chapter 5: Re-imagining Faith-Based and Civil Society Organisations as Agents of Development in transitional Polities in Africa. Challenge and Prospects for Shared-values in the Future. Lessons from Cameroon
• Chapter 6: Mozambique in Search of a New Political Economic Vision within the Context of the Current Global Crisis: Challenges and Prospects in Constructing a Capable Developmental State in the Future
• Chapter 7: The Challenge of Democracy after the Rising Spell of Independence
• Chapter 8: Rethinking the Nexus of Institutional Structures and Social Innovations for Sustainable Development in Africa
• Chapter 9: Emerging Perspectives on Democracy, Governance and Development in Africa: Reforms, Challenges and Prospects for a Beleaguered Continent
• Chapter 10: Re-imagining Human Capacity Development as Input Nexus to Performance Management and Quality Services Delivery in Africa
• Chapter 11: The Triumphant Agony and Tragedy of Globalisation and Africa’s Socioeconomic Transformation: Challenges, Changes and Prospects for the Future
• Chapter 12: Unleashing Peoples Power – The Promise of a New Democratic Revolution and Evolution for Africa
• Chapter 13: Leadership Ethos: The Need for Paradigm Shift for Africa’s Unity and Development
• Chapter 14: Wrong Education Reinforces Exploitation, Inequality and Underdevelopment: What Africa Must Do?
• Chapter 15: Articulating A New Public Sector Reform: Towards Enhancing Governance and Quality Services Delivery in Africa. Challenges and Prospects
• Chapter 16: Locking Back and Facing Forward Challenges
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