The continent of Africa is endowed with natural resources in each country. Tapping into these resources provides a great opportunity for African countries to grow and develop. However, this vast wealth of resources cannot be tapped by the African countries because of a lack of capacity and Funds. Oil producing countries in Africa heavily rely on the expertise and resources of Foreign Oil companies to help them exploit the oil. The foreign Oil companies signed contracts with the unsuspecting African countries to help them benefits from their resources. Those contracts are not the same that are signed internationally. They are steeped towards the benefit of the foreign oil companies. This book examines what went wrong and suggest some remedies to maximize the benefits of those national natural resources. Examples are drawn from the study conducted in the Republic of South Sudan’s oil sector.
This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a transpacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book's multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States. These materials allow Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies.
The road to success is rarely linear and never easy. Despite countless setbacks, Jim Ovia, founder of Zenith Bank, was able to achieve the unthinkable. Africa Rise and Shine is the story of Ovia's business and banking success and how he was able to create one of Africa's largest banks. Spanning decades of both world and Nigerian history, Africa Rise and Shine dives deep into the events that led to Ovia's triumph. Drawing upon his educational experiences and relentless determination, Ovia was able to overcome every hurdle that stood in the way of his bank becoming the national icon that it is today. Africa Rise and Shine outlines the tough, yet necessary business decisions that were essential to Zenith's prolonged success and is filled with valuable takeaways for every businessperson. Learn from one of the best in banking what it takes to truly be successful.
History described Africa as a dark continent made up of a set of primitive people. Is this really true? Was our true identity revealed? How has slavery and colonization affected the mindset of Africans negatively? Can things get better? These and many more are the questions answered in this book ARISE AFRICA by Samuel Nanje Flourish. It is a wake-up call for every young African who wants to be free from western influence. It is also a wake-up call for every Cameroonian who wants to leave an impact in their generation.
About the Book Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa recounts the main events and happenings of the African Union (AU) since its creation under the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) from 1963 to 2020. As we recall the past history of the OAU/AU, we learn of successive leaders and main decisions taken and challenges encountered since its establishment in 1963. This book is a recollection at a one go of what main issues the African continent is facing, how they were approached by different leaders at different times over the last sixty years. Read Arise and Walk, O Beloved Africa to find inspiration to be more focused on how to apprehend problems faced by Africa and possible solutions to overcome them. Let’s make Africa more relevant and responsive of the challenges facing humanity. About the Author Ambassador Jean Mfasoni is much involved in community matters wherever he has served in his country and abroad, notably holding leadership positions in various communities, including at school/university, the workplace, etc. Through his involvement in the OAU/AU work for over forty years, he has become an institutional memory as several leaders, colleagues, and friends have relied on him to enlighten them on past OAU/AU experiences and that of the continent at large. Jean loves music, humor, the sharing of information, walking, reading, and social events. His special interests include continuous learning and intellectual debates about societal problems. He is very interested in building strong family and community relationships.
This skillfully crafted poetic masterpiece titled, "Africa Arise" is a collage of African inspiration poems designed to celebrate the beauty of African diversity in terms of its people, luminous landscapes and wildlife. In this catalogue of emotionally provocative yet intellectually stimulating book, the author unpacks uncommon syllables of how the African continent has stood the test of time and arisen with great resilience, endurance and forbearance, in the face of raging storms and tidal waves and yet remained unfulstered.In esoteric language, the author has skillfully decoded the coded syllables on African identity, diversity and heritage, which for ages have remained an inexplicable subject. This book brims with provocative insights that provide a unique and ground-breaking entry into the wealth of untold tales and unexplored mysteries of the African land. It unveils the treasure and beauty of the African land and sends a clarion call and consciousness to all Africans to treasure and cherish it. Mother Africa is uniquely endowed by nature and beautified with the natural landscape scenery, heritage and diversity yet it is on the verge of losing the mark of its identity. Therefore, this treatise is a wake-up call for all Africans to awaken from a deep slumber and revive the pride of Africanism and embrace the core values of love, solidarity, and human dignity. Moreover, the poems hails, commend and celebrate the female heroes of the African heritage (Imbokodo), for their demonstration of resilience in the face of adversity, and siege and rising against the unjust and gruesome societal tides that has boxed them under the shadows of men.This publication is jam-packed with poetic insights that will take you through a journey out of the convictions and ordinary perceptions of Africanism to plunge into the greater depths of understanding the essence of African identity. The intellectually challenging, deeply provoking and incredibly inspiring, hard-to-get poetic rhythms and rhymes encapsulated in this book are set to revolutionise the lens through which you view the African continent and its people. The depth and density of poetic syllables it contains requires the reader to make a conscientious effort to digest its morsels, hence it is designed for those who are set on expeditions and adventures to explore the African content.Drawing from a plethora of his wealth of skills in poetic rhymes, Frequency Rhymes has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that rant and raves about the great panorama of African heritage from the primeval cataclysms that explored the continent to the economic upheavals facing much of the continent today. In incredible poetic language, the author tells the extraordinary story of how Africa overcame ferocious obstacles of war, hunger, and genocides to emerge as one of the greatest on the face of the earth. To stay relevant to current poetic trends, his writing style is delivered in an idiosyncratic and eccentric style, a very modern mix of meme-culture, quirky slang and unapologetic youth coolness. For this reason, the author is a revolutionary new voice in African poetry, emerging with authority, to claim his space and audience.The wealth and riches with which Africa is endowed in terms of the abundance of natural resources such as gold, silver and diamonds and the diversity of cultures makes Africa such a thrilling society with a unique identity. For this reason, the author describes Africa as the land of dreamers, adventurers, and explorers. In this vast and vivid panorama of historical wealth, the author discusses the fortunes of Africa which are naturally available to the African people. With compelling narrative, he expounds on how Africa can transform the jangling discords of the continent into a beautiful symphony of unity and oasis of freedom.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw is best known for the curveball Vin Scully dubbed "Public Enemy Number One." But Clayton sees his ability to throw a baseball as just one way he lives out his passion for God. In Arise, he teams up with his wife, Ellen, to share what they have learned about making a difference in the world while living out one's God-given dreams. Long before Clayton began his pro baseball career, he and Ellen made a commitment to live out their faith in Christ by giving to others--and they see their success on and off the field as blessings to be shared with those who are hurting most.
