Imagining the United States of Africa
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Imagining the United States of Africa

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Imagining the United States of Africa

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About this book

This book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa's adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. The Issue of Nationalism and Political Integration in Africa’s Unification Project
  7. The Challenge of Corruption Control in Africa
  8. Reflection on Capitalism and Liberal Globalization
  9. Political Ethnicity and Conflict Management in an Integrated Continent
  10. ICT Penetration and Functions of Government and Society in Fostering Regional Power Hubs Critical for Sustaining Development in Africa
  11. Social Democracy and Its Efficacy for a United Africa
  12. Selected Bibliography
  13. Index
  14. About the Contributors