Imagining the United States of Africa
Discourses on the Way Forward
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International
| Author: | George Klay Kieh, Jr., Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, John Mukum Mbaku, Kwesi A. Tandoh, E. Ike Udogu | ISBN: | 9781498507769 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | February 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | George Klay Kieh, Jr., Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, John Mukum Mbaku, Kwesi A. Tandoh, E. Ike Udogu |
| ISBN: | 9781498507769 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | February 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
This book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa’s adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.
This book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa’s adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.
