Towards a New Map of AfricaBen Wisner, Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment, Rutendo Chitiga Routledge, 23/05/2012 - 373 من الصفحات 'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily diverse Africa is and how much it has changed in the last 20 years.Full of fresh thinking on problems that face Africa and new African approaches to development.' This ground-breaking book, with a foreword by former President of Ireland (199-997) and UN Human Rights Commissioner (1997 2002) Mary Robinson, uniquely distils the complex issues surrounding Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. African and Western scholars provide a fascinating 'map' for the reader to navigate between issues such as urban and rural livelihoods, the potential of fresh water fishing, health, the HIV/AIDS crisis, conflict and efforts at peacemaking. Also included are critical assessments of Africa's role in the global economy, the growth of regional economic cooperation within Africa, the influence of ethnicity on the continent's politics, the evolution of its political institutions, and the impact of Africa's legal systems on its development. A substantial introductory essay by the editors measures the distance Africa has travelled and the lessons it has learned since Africa in Crisis, the classic Earthscan book, was published in 1985. Ben Wisner is visiting research fellow at DESTIN, London School of Economics and at Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, and visiting professor of environmental studies, Oberlin College, USA. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Rutendo Chitiga is a freelance writer and editor, and has a postgraduate degree in environment and development. |
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... contributed to the creation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD, see below, p31), have also pledged to lead the UN's Millennium African Partnership. The latter aims to make African 28 Towards a New Map ofAfrica.
... NEPAD, which has become the common approach of a new Pan-African consensus. The NEPAD Programme of Action (2001) describes three initiatives related to the fundamental conditions for sustainable development in Africa: • the Peace ...
... NEPAD, regional economic and peacekeeping cooperation – other, less visible signs of vitality and new beginnings can be noted. Since Africa in Crisis, there has been a steady outpouring of books and articles illustrating that some ...
... NEPAD certainly attempt to build on the continent's strengths. However, production and its basis – the health and education of the people – continues to lag. Twenty years of 'adjustment' have not yielded the economic growth promised nor ...