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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... Nigeria again with civilian government and a wide regional peacekeeping role. Africa in Crisis was written before the genocide in Rwanda, now thought to have claimed 937,000 (UNOCHA, 2004). Its publication also pre-dated the self ...
... Nigeria's civil war in the late 1960s is the exception to this generalization. Africa in Crisis was written before the impunity of dictators and mass murderers was firmly contested. The war crime tribunals in Arusha and The Hague had ...
... for any other region of the world.4 When one excludes South Africa and Nigeria, the rest of Africa received only 3 per cent of 6 Towards a New Map ofAfrica What's Happened to the Crisis since Africa in Crisis was Published?
... Nigeria (as early as 1969) and Sudan, and it has often been the focus of corruption and human rights abuses (as in Equatorial Guinea and southeastern Nigeria, where protests lead to the execution by government officials of activist ...
... Nigeria, where several state governments refused to allow polio vaccination because of rumours of corrupted vaccines. In war-ravaged countries, immunization has also been disrupted. The measles vaccine, for example, requires a 'cold ...