"This book provides compelling case studies of Africa's struggles, accomplishments, challenges, and prospects in the critical and interconnected areas of governance, security, and development. It argues that that Africa needs to decolonize the terms of reference that guide its nation-building, statecraft, and national development agenda"--
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.
This book provides compelling case studies of Africas struggles, accomplishments, challenges, and prospects in the critical and interconnected areas of governance, security, and development. It argues that that Africa needs to decolonize the terms of reference that guide its nation-building, statecraft, and national development agenda.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Self-Determination and Its Ambiguous Application in the League of
Nations Mandate System by Cķntia Martins and Pedro Ponte e Sousa
Chapter 2: Lions on the Move: Assessing Africas Economic Challenges,
Prospects, and Progress since Independence by Michael Rudolph Ten-Pow
Chapter 3: Polycentric and Centralized Federalism in Africa by Oyebade Kunle
Oyerinde
Chapter 4: France and Francophone Africa: Can the New Scramble for Africa Put
an End to an Enduring Zero-Sum Relationship? by Walters Tohnji Samah
Chapter 5: In(ter)dependence or New Dependence?: Chinas Infrastructure
Development Model in Africa and Implications for Modernization and Modernity
by Stephen M. Magu
Chapter 6: Climate Change and Food Security in the Lake Chad Region: Current
Realities and Imperative Actions by Stanley Ehiane and Mabuyi Gumede
Chapter 7: Coup Makers as Leaders of Constitutional Change in Francophone
Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Benin, Mali, and Guinea
by Mohamed Saliou Camara
Chapter 8: From Coup Makers to Leaders of Democratic Change in Anglophone
Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria and Ghana by
Mohamed Saliou Camara
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 by Priye S. Torulagha
Chapter 10: A Forgotten Threat?: Drug Trafficking, Security and Governance
Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa by Felix Kumah-Abiwu
Chapter 11: Climate Change, Human Security, the Sustainable Development
Goals, and the Rule of Law: African Union Quo Vadis? by Oliver C. Ruppel and
Larissa Jane H. Houston
Chapter 12: Coronavirus Outbreak: A Test to Authenticity of the African
Continental Free Trade Area Policy in the Era of Globalisation by Seun
Bamidele
Chapter 13: European Military Conscription, Forced Labour, and Refugee Crisis
in West Africa during World War I: Trends and Reactions by James Olusegun
Adeyeri and Jackson A. Aluede
Chapter 14: Social Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Africa: Farmland
Ownership among the Yoruba of Nigeria by Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde
Chapter 15: Assessing the Impact of Enlarging Peoples Choices for Kenyan
Women through Political Participation, Equal Access to Justice and
Socio-economic Development by Habiba Ibrahim and Stephen M. Magu
Chapter 16: Globalization and Violent Extremism in Africa: From Regional
(In)security Complexes to a Global (In)security Complex by Lawrence Mhandara
Conclusion
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Mohamed Saliou Camara is professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University.
Alem Hailu is associate professor of African studies at Howard University.
Sabella O. Abidde is professor of political science and member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University.
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