Smith, Malinda S.

Globalizing Africa.

Trenton

2003

0865438692

9780865438705

Dedication

Table of contents

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Acknowledgements

Preface

PART I: DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS & PEACE

1. Representations of Postcolonial Africa
Malinda S. Smith

2 Globalizing Africa and the Commonwealth: Four Ethical Revolutions
Ali A. Mazrui

3. Africa and the Invention of Democracy
Daniel M. Mengara and Victoria Tietze Larson

4. Legacies of Slavery, Promises of Democracy: Mauritania in the Twenty-first Century
E. Ann McDougall, Meskerem Brhane and Urs Peter Ruf

5. Gender Politics in South Africa: Rights, Needs, and Democratic Consolidation
Shireen Hassim

6. The Crisis of the Nigerian State: Paradoxes of the Local and Global
Olufemi Vaughan

7. Sierra Leone: Between the Prison-Houses of Nationalism and Transnationalism
Sandra Rein

8. Humanitarian Intervention in Africa: Rwanda and Liberia
Francis Kofi Abiew

9. The Problems of Sharing Power: Inclusive Peace Agreements in Africa
Ian Spears

PART II: AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

10. Globalization, Socialism, and Political Science Fiction
John S. Saul

11. Africa in the Global Economy: Aid, Debt and Development
Ghelawdewos Araia

12 Agency, Space, and Power: The Geometries of Postconflict Development
Lisa Bornstein and William Munro

13. Zimbabwe: Twists on the Tale of Primitive Accumulation
David Moore

14. South Africa and Regionalization in Southern Africa
Olusoji Akomolafe

15. Adjustment and Enterprise in Africa: An Historical Perspective
Abdella Abdou

16. Structural Adjustment and Stabilization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ifeanyi C. Ezeonu

17. Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Zambia
Julius O. Ihonvbere

18. Political Economy of Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria
Pita O. Agbese

19. Gender and the Social Dimensions of IMF Policies in Senegal
Yassine Fall

20. Globalization of Agriculture: Lessons from Ghana
Korbla Peter Puplampu

21. Africa's Environmental Challenges into the Twenty-first Century
Emmanuel Mapfumo

PART III: EDUCATION & CULTURE

22. Indigenous Knowledge, the African Renaissance, and the Integration of Knowledge Systems
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

23. African Scholarship and Academic Infrastructure: Engendering New Approaches
Philomena E. Okeke

24. Globalization, Entrepreneurship, Education, and African Youth
Eunice Kanyi

25. The Knowledge-Based Economy and Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mambo Tabu Masinda

26. Universities in Times of National Crisis: The Cases of Rwanda and Burundi
Bruce Janz

27. Narrative, Politics, and Postcolonial Film Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jerry White

28. The Globalization of African Literature: Continuity, Change, and Adaptation
Augustine Okereke

29. African Literatures in the Year 2050
George Lang

30. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Road to Reconciliation
Kenneth Christie

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX