Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa

Mohamed Saliou Camara, Alem Hailu, Sabella O. Abidde

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9798216240730
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Governance, security, and development are three critical components of a dialectical nexus that is both dominant and determinant for any objective and fruitful quest for the understanding of the trajectory of a country, a region or, in the case of Africa, a continent from a colonial past to a neocolonial and meta-colonial present, and toward a future of strategic optimal independence and self-reliance. That colonial past and the ensuing neocolonial and meta-colonial present have made these critical components and the dialectical nexus that they form particularly challenging for the African continent. For this reason, Issues of Governance, Security and Development in Contemporary Africa offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the challenges that contemporary Africa faces within these critical areas, as well as the resources and prospects that the continent possesses and can leverage to overcome the said challenges. Using case studies involving a range of countries across the continent, Mohamed Saliou Camara, Alem Hailu, and Sabella O. Abidde argue that Africa needs to decolonize the terms of reference that guide its nation-building, statecraft, and national development agenda in ways that will facilitate the establishment of viable systems of governance and security, and the promotion of genuine development.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Self-Determination and Its Ambiguous Application in the League of Nations’ Mandate System
• Chapter 2: “Lions on the Move”: Assessing Africa’s Economic Challenges, Prospects, and Progress since Independence
• Chapter 3: Polycentric and Centralized Federalism in Africa
• Chapter 4: France and Francophone Africa: Can the New Scramble for Africa Put an End to an Enduring Zero-Sum Relationship?
• Chapter 5: In(ter)dependence or New Dependence?: China’s Infrastructure Development Model in Africa and Implications for Mode nization and Modernity
• Chapter 6: Climate Change and Food Security in the Lake Chad Region: Current Realities and Imperative Actions
• Chapter 7: Coup Makers as Leaders of Constitutional Change in Francophone Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Benin, Mali, and Guinea
• Chapter 8: From Coup Makers to Leaders of Democratic Change in Anglophone Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria and Ghana
• Chapter 9: Terrorism in Nigeria: The Examination of the Statements, Utterances, and Declarations of the Northern Islamic Elite to Justify the Fulanization and Islamization of Nigeria
• Chapter 10: A Forgotten Threat?: Drug Trafficking, Security, and Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 11: Climate Change, Human Security, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Rule of Law: African Union Quo Vadis?
• Chapter 12: Coronavirus Outbreak: A Test to Authenticity of the African Continental Free Trade Area Policy in the Era of Globalization
• Chapter 13: European Military Conscription, Forced Labor, and Refugee Crisis in West Africa during World War I: Trends and Reactions
• Chapter 14: Social Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Africa: Farmland Ownership among the Yoruba of Nigeria
• Chapter 15: Assessing the Impact of “Enlarging People’s Choices” for Kenyan Women through Political Participation, Equal Access to Justice, and Socioeconomic Development
• Chapter 16: Globalization and Violent Extremism in Africa: From Regional (In)security Complexes to a Global (In)security Complex
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors