African Development and Global Engagements

The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa's developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled 'Conference of Parties' (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible 'vaccine nationalism' that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the 'begging continent' one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.

Presents up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on every component of Africa's relations with the world Provides a multidisciplinary approach to understand the challenge of dependency in Africa Makes use of both empirical and case study approaches to address specific clogs in the wheels of Africa's relationship

Autorentext
Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran is Professor and Researcher in sociology, migration and development studies at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria and Research Consultant with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Klappentext

The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africäs developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled Conference of Parties (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible vaccine nationalism that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the begging continent one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Problem with African Development.- Chapter 2. Contextualizing African Global Engagements: Theoretical, Methodological and Conceptual Analyses.- Chapter 3. Africa in the World.- Chapter 4. Colonial Undercurrents and African Integration.- Chapter 5. Culture and Development in Africa.- Chapter 6. Leadership, Followership and Development in Africa.- Chapter 7. Decolonization of knowledge production in Africa.- Chapter 8. 'Brain Drain' or 'Brain Gain' in Africa.- Chapter 9. African Demographic Dividend.- Chapter 10. Migration Management in Africa.- Chapter 11. Crises of Development Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors.- Chapter 12. Educational Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors.- Chapter 13. Research, Innovation and Development in Africa: Why the stagnation? - Chapter 14. Interrogating the Roles of International Organizations (IOs) in African Emancipation.- Chapter 15. Covid-19, Vaccine Nationalism and Africa: Lesson Learnt.- Chapter 16. Africa in the Context of UN Conference of Parties (COP) on Climate Change, etc. <p