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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... problems – universally beset by conflict, hunger, disease and misgovernment. And despite the huge wealth of talent and experience in many parts of the continent, too much pontificating about Africa is carried out by European or North ...
... problems of climate change and huge inequities in life chances. The fall of the Berlin Wall could have provided a dividend to invest in development and peace. But the last ten years have shown us a harsher face. The new security agenda ...
... problems. In his book Timberlake managed to combine a heartfelt disgust at the waste and suffering experienced by so many with a clear description of how power, greed and ignorance had led to environmental bankruptcy. Sixteen years ...
... problems with health care delivery, much tuberculosis is untreated or insufficiently treated, so that antibiotic resistant strains have developed. In the case of maternal mortality, the contrasts with the rest of the world remain a ...
... problems they don't understand. Rene Dumont was one of the first to point this out in his classic study, False Start inAfrica (Dumont, 1969). Examples can be drawn from the groundnut scheme in the 1940s onwards. Badly thought-out aid ...