Failure of Secession in Africa. The Case of Biafranization in Nigeria
Failure of Secession in Africa. The Case of Biafranization in Nigeria

Author: Shimels Ayele

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2020-01-13

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 3346094871

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Essay from the year 2015 in the subject History - Africa, Mekelle University (college of social science and humanities), course: African History, language: English, abstract: This article primarily aimed to assess how Biafranization had failed, causes for the failure and its consequences. It is explanatory or analytical study based on systematic review of literature analyzed through unstructured qualitative method. Sources utilized for this study include books, legal documents and internets sources. The initial quest of the Ibos was internal self-determination. However, the absence of appropriate response resulted to the genesis for Biafranization. Ultimately, the Ibos made an attempt to achieve their goal violently. Violent quest for Biafranization had failed due to internal and external factors. Its failure also resulted to hampered development of democratic principles, undermined sense of nationalism, brought negative impact on the economy, stability, security, inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic, and ethnic nationalism became the dominant feature in the region. The conflict due to the quest for self-determination were often driven by their perceived political, economic, and cultural oppression. Such type of conflicts often goes through similar development process, but are usually defeated by military force. Both African governments and the international community were generally not sympathetic to these forms of activities. As a result, very few of these movements were successfully achieved their goal and won the right to self-determination (secession). Despite the limited success of these movements of self-determination, they have nevertheless caused considerable damage and destruction in socio, economics, and political life of the people in the continent. In fact, these movements of self-determination were caused by economic backwardness, competition to control natural resources, dysfunctional governments, and fractionalized societies (i.e. ethnic and religious).

Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Case of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
Conflict Resolution in Africa: The Case of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)

Author: Marvin Nii Ankrah

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 3954895781

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The objective of this research is to investigate the causes of conflict in Africa. Further, it discusses the role played by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in ensuring political order during its period of existence. The study employs content analysis of historical documents, academic works, internet sources and also current conflict situations in Africa as a baseline for its argument. Mainly, the study shows which major sources of tension need to be resolved to enjoy a sound, stable, peaceful, political and economic environment in the new millennium.

Unity and Pluralism in Public International Law
Unity and Pluralism in Public International Law

Author: Oriol Casanovas y La Rosa

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2001-07-25

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9789041116642

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The proliferation of international courts and the extension of international regulation to new areas have been considered to be threatening for the unity of Public International Law as a legal system. These developments are the consequence of the increasing formation of legal subsystems (material international regimes) which continue to grow in complexity. How these trends affect the unity of the international legal system requires theoretical scrutiny of its fundamental bases. This work considers that the unity of the international legal system depends upon its normative structure, and on the social medium in which it is applied: the evolving international community. A unified international legal system has as its ultimate goal the protection of human dignity through the international regulation of human rights. The question of the unifying stability of the international legal system and the development of legal subsystems within it encourages a review of the major issues of current Public International Law, considering the evolution from traditional doctrines to recent approaches. This review is done from an analytical frame that provides a deeper understanding of the current situation of Public International Law as a legal system.

The Role Of Good Governance In Eliminating Poverty In Sub-Sahara Africa
The Role Of Good Governance In Eliminating Poverty In Sub-Sahara Africa

Author: Joshua Kwizera

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 3668466173

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Document from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: African continent has for several decades been considered the poorest continent in the world simply because the majority of children and adults suffer from extreme poverty. According to the global development report published by the guardian in 2016, Sub-Saharan Africa not only has the highest percentage of children living in extreme poverty (49%), it is home to the largest share of the world’s extremely poor children (51%). South Asia has the second highest share (36%). Although many experts have indicated that sub-Sahara Africa in particular, is expected to reach a GDP of $29 trillion by 2050, there is little to indicate how this growth correlates with economic development. No matter how true these predictions might be, sub-Sahara Africa’s economic development is slower and the situation on ground don’t reflect whether this growth will soon give birth to economic development as exports argue. Sub-Sahara Africa is losing energetic labor force through economic migration that that has since 2013 become a serious social problem to Europe. [...]

The Concept of Sovereign Equality of States in International Law
The Concept of Sovereign Equality of States in International Law

Author: Alex Ansong

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781481026345

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The notion that the existence of a State must not be based on, inter alia, the military or economic power it wields to assure its existence and prevent interference from other states, has evolved over the centuries and has become a foundational provision in the United Nations Charter. States are deemed equal just by their status as states under international law. Sovereign equality is therefore juridical in nature in that, all states are equal under international law in spite of asymmetries of inequality in areas like military power, geographical and population size, levels of industrialisation and economic development. Transposing this principle into actual practice, especially in decision-making systems in international organisations presents problems. If all states are equal, should it also mean equality of influence in law creation in international organisations? With treaties being one of the main sources of international law, if states do not have equal influence in treaty based international organisations this would mean that the will of the mighty would prevail over the weak. Juridical equality is therefore empty if cannot translate into effective equality, at least at the level of law creation in international organisations.This book presents an analysis of the concept of sovereign equality of states. It covers a historical overview of the concept and its current manifestation in international law. A key analysis undertaken in this book is the importance of the concept of sovereign equality in decision-making systems in international organisations.

From French West Africa to the Mali Federation
From French West Africa to the Mali Federation

Author: William J. Foltz

Publisher: New Haven, Yale U. P

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Historical account of politics, political parties and economic integration in French speaking African countries of West Africa before and after accession to independence. Political problems of Mali and Senegal concerning the foundation and breakdown of the federation. Implications for further international cooperation in Africa South of Sahara. Maps, tables. Bibliography pp. 215-228.