Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of ’dynamic’ entanglements - new and micro-regionalism, informal cross-border …
The African Union Handbook 2016, published in both English and French, is the definitive reference guide for everyone working in or with the African Union, and for those looking to better understand or increase their participation and engagement with the organisation.
In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians' manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that has been exacerbated by the international…
Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics — one built on the shared understanding that unites us as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, candidly candid about his family life and time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political beliefs and inspires us to believe in the steady optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope g…
South Africa's transformation from apartheid to a non-racial democracy has been called a miracle. But behind the public story lies another, the story of how the Afrikaners' own secret brotherhood, the Broderbund, saw the need for change and met secretly with the ANC in an English village
This book asks how the political leaders of Africa, as well as interest groups can promote economic growth in their countries. Drawing on studies of countries outside Africa, Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills identify the factors separating the performers form the laggards worldwide. Aside from the need to create an enabling environment for business through good governance, provision of infrastruct…
The story that emerges is one of endurance and heroism in face of atrocious brutality on the part of the colonialists. But it reveals that it was also one of painful compromises imposed by the conditions of the struggle and the subordination of internal democracy within the liberation movement to the single goal of military and diplomatic victory. The study will be of keen interest to everyone…
Since June 1964, Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned in South Africa. His speeches and writings have been banned, his words and voice cut off from his people. A whole generation has been born and grown up while he has been in jail, yet, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, "there is no black child in whose face, at the mention of his name, there is not instant recognition." For Nelson Mandela is a l…
This book on political leadership in underdeveloped Africa and Asia as- sumes that a ruler's first desire is to retain his position at the apex of government while others press to displace him. THE RULER'S IMPERATIVE asks: Once positioned at the apex, what must a ruler do to remain in power and pursue more effectively the nation- building goals he sets for himself and his polity? How can he act…