African Development and Global Engagements -

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Résumé :
The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa's developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21^st Century, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled 'Conference of Parties' (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible 'vaccine nationalism' that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the 'begging continent' one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode....

Biographie:
Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran is Professor and Researcher in sociology, migration and development studies at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Nigeria and Research Consultant with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Sommaire:
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Problem with African Development. - Chapter 2. Contextualizing African Global Engagements: Theoretical, Methodological and Conceptual Analyses. - Chapter 3. Africa in the World. - Chapter 4. Colonial Undercurrents and African Integration. - Chapter 5. Culture and Development in Africa. - Chapter 6. Leadership, Followership and Development in Africa. - Chapter 7. Decolonization of knowledge production in Africa. - Chapter 8. 'Brain Drain' or 'Brain Gain' in Africa. - Chapter 9. African Demographic Dividend. - Chapter 10. Migration Management in Africa. - Chapter 11. Crises of Development Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors. - Chapter 12. Educational Planning in Africa: Internal and External Factors. - Chapter 13. Research, Innovation and Development in Africa: Why the stagnation? - Chapter 14. Interrogating the Roles of International Organizations (IOs) in African Emancipation. - Chapter 15. Covid-19, Vaccine Nationalism and Africa: Lesson Learnt. - Chapter 16. Africa in the Context of UN Conference of Parties (COP) on Climate Change. - Chapter 17. African Ecosystem and Sustainable Human Development. - Chapter 18. Demographic Change and Sustainable Livelihood in Africa: A Comparative Analysis. - Chapter 19. Challenges of Food Security in Africa: What Way Forward? - Chapter 20. Industrialization and Economic Development in Africa. - Chapter 21. AfCTA and African Integration. - Chapter 22. Unbridled Land Grabbing in Africa: What are the Drivers? - Chapter 23. Contextual Explanations on Re-energized Scramble for Africa. - Chapter 24. Prospects and Challenges of Social Welfare Provisioning in Africa. - Chapter 25. Strategies for Mitigating Conflicts, Insecurity and Insurgency in Africa. - Chapter 26. Corruption and Sustainable Development in Africa. - Chapter 27. China in Africa: Whose Interest? - Chapter 28. Africa and South-South Partnership. - Chapter 29. Africa and Asia. - Chapter 30. Africa and Australasia. - Chapter 31. Africa and the Caribbean. - Chapter 32. Africa and Europe. - Chapter 33. Africa and North America. - Chapter 34. Africa and South America. - Chapter 35. Future Africa: Can Africa ever be Self Reliant?