Africa's Development in the Twenty-first Century: Pertinent Socio-economic and Development Issues

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Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, Martin Kwamina Panford
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 409 pages
The issues covered in this volume include the theoretical underpinnings of Africa's development crisis, food production, environmental degradation, conflict between timber & diamonds, land distribution, implications of ignoring traditional values, gender disparities in education, the African Union and urbanization.
 

Contents

Theoretical Discussions and Consideration
11
A New Conceptualization
27
Africa and the Dialectics of Globalization
49
Regional Groupings Political and Economic Unions
69
Food Land Matters Natural Resources and Management
109
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136
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142
Development Lessons from Ghanas
161
Olayiwola Abegunrin
235
Equality and the Accommodation
249
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281
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296
The Case of
323
Currency Devaluation and Poverty in Mauritania
343
Africas Opportunities and Challenges
357
Africas Participation in the Revolution in Information
375

the Commons?
183
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203
Developmental Issues
217
Reinventing Africa for the 21st Century
391
Index
401
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