Deadend to Nigerian Development
Deadend to Nigerian Development

Author: Okwudiba Nnoli

Publisher: Codesria

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The balance of power between an individual and the state they live in is the key to any country's political process. Concepts of citizenship, reciprocity of rights and citizen's duties intertwine in the struggle for assertion. With its largely collective citizenship, the civil society in Africa is alive and vibrant. But in the face of continuing global recession, the present phase of the African crisis is expected to sharpen contradictions within the continent's states. New paradigms have to be sought to explain the formations and realities. The ten chapters in this book, all written by African scholars, question the western, ethnocentric model of development and look at the wide diversity of African experience. From the Ormo cosmic framework and street-begging in Nigeria, through the role of labour and the part played by wage demands in the African crisis, this volume is a major contribution to the debate on Africa's future.

Dead End: Nigeria
Dead End: Nigeria

Author: Nwachukwu Nnoka

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1503558932

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In this second book, Dead End: Nigeria, he continues his explorations of morality and madness in his native land with an exposition of the reasons for perennial governmental dehumanization of their peoples; the economic and environmental consequences of these cumulative misfortunes; the resulting loss of meaning; and a predictable probable collapse of nationhood. Happily, there is a way out of this imminent disaster. Also cataloged in this book is a problem analysis and outline of a master plan for the United Regions of Nigeria. Hopefully, a future cadre of Nigerian leaders would deliberate and heed the proposals embodied in this book to help save a nation and its peoples.

Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa
Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa

Author: Jeremiah I. Dibua

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1351152904

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In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.

Dead Aid
Dead Aid

Author: Dambisa Moyo

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0374139563

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Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question
Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question

Author: Aaron Tsado Gana

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780865439788

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The world's first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development, this book interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism. Here, top scholars offer refreshing insight into the prospects for transforming Africa into a super-power of the third millennium. The breadth and depth of coverage and analytical rigour unites the essays, providing one of the most comprehensive and authoritative treatments of the subject in recent years.

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories
Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories

Author: George Clement Bond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0429980973

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Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories brings together intellectuals from a variety of fields, backgrounds, generations, and continents to deepen and reinvigo-rate the theoretical and intellectual integrity of African studies. Building on recent debate within African studies that has revolved around the role of Africanists in the United States as “gatekeepers” of knowledge about Africa and Africans, this volume of interdisciplinary essays focuses on the contested character of the production of knowledge itself. In every chapter, case studies and ethnographic materials, drawn from such regions as South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, the Malagasy Republic, Angola, Ghana, and Senegal, demonstrate the application of theory to concrete situations.

International Bibliography of Economics 1994
International Bibliography of Economics 1994

Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9780415127837

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The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Globalization and Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st Century
Globalization and Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st Century

Author: Kidane Mengisteab

Publisher: Africa World Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780865435599

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African economies are the most dependent and the most marginalised in the global system. Prevailing policies to integrate these economies more closely with the global economy are, in the view of many misplaced and this work presents a series of alternative strategies that will tap the energies of the African people to develop their own potential and reduce their dependence on World Bank/IMF-led approaches.

Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Author: Robert Spencer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 3030665569

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This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s as an effective ‘recolonization’ of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa’s continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy.

Troubled Journey
Troubled Journey

Author: Levi Akalazu Nwachuku

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780761827122

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Troubled Journey: Nigeria Since the Civil War is the latest of a number of case-study probes into Nigeria's unique experience as a modern African state. It pulls together a talented group of Nigerian historians who have been close students of Nigeria's "troubled journey" since Independence Day on October 1, 1960, and more precisely since the conclusion of its devastating Civil War from 1967 to 1970. This book is a major contribution to the on-going debate about how the country can best be politically restructured and socio-economically reformed.