Contending issues in African development : advances, challenges, and the future / / edited by Obioma M. Iheduru

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910806869903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2001; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 0-313-00101-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Collana: Contributions in economics and economic history, , 0084-9235 ; ; no. 219
• Altri autori (Persone): IheduruObioma M
• Disciplina: 338.96
• Soggetti: Africa Economic policy; Africa Social policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- CONTENDING ISSUES IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT -- Contents -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Conflicts and Convergence in African Development Thinking -- BRING BACK THE STATE -- BUILDING SOCIAL CAPACITY -- POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE -- REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- PART II Bring Back the State: From Instability to Consolidation -- 2 The Political Economy of State Reconstitution in Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- MODERNIZATION AND NEOLIBERAL ARGUMENTS -- DEPENDENCY THEORY11 -- CONCEPT OF STATEHOOD AND ITS APPLICATION TO AFRICA -- WHERE THE RAIN BEGAN TO BEAT US27 -- INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN AFRICA -- RECONSTITUTING THE AFRICAN STATES -- THE ECONOMIC CRISIS FACING AFRICA -- WESTERN RESPONSE TO THE CRISES OF STATEHOOD IN AFRICA -- IN LIEU OF A CONCLUSION: SUPERSTATES ARE BETTER FOR AFRICA -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 The Mass Media and Political Stability in Africa: A Utilitarian Theory Approach -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTABILITY: DEFINITIONS -- Factors of Instability -- A MODEL OF INSTABILITY IN AFRICA -- MODEL VARIABLES AND DEFINITIONS -- OPERATION OF THE INSTABILITY MODEL: HOW IT FUNCTIONS -- The Two-Way Relationship between Economic and Social Instabilities -- THE ROLE OF THE MASS ; MEDIA IN AFRICA'S POLITICS -- The Colonial Press: The Duality of the Mass Media -- The Nationalist Press: Mass Media as Emancipators -- The Contemporary Press -- THE MASS MEDIA AS AGENTS OF STABILITY -- Media Impotence: Why They Are Not Stability Agents -- Development Journalism and National Development -- Consequences of Media Impotence and State Control -- Propositions for Remedying Instability -- Freedom of the Press: What Does It Mean? -- THE PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION -- UTILITARIAN JOURNALISM -- Genuine African Needs -- The Feasibility of Utilitarian Journalism -- Policy Reform.; BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 Africa between the Meiji Restoration and the Legacy of Atatürk: Comparative Dilemmas of Modernization -- IS WESTERNIZED AFRICA PREMODERN? -- MODERNIZATION IN A FOREIGN IDIOM -- TOWARD MODERNIZING WESTERNIZED AFRICA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- PART III Building Social Capacity: Civil Society, Democratization, and Human Rights -- 5 Civil Society and Democratic Development in Eastern and Southern Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- NGOS AS DEMOCRATIZING AGENTS -- NGOS AND POLITICS: A CONTRADICTION OF NATURAL EVOLUTION? -- NGOs AS AGENTS OF DEVELOPMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 6 The State and Human Rights in Africa -- THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE AFRICAN PREDICAMENT -- THE NONHEGEMONIC STATE AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 7 Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems, Advances, and Prospects -- INTRODUCTION -- DEMOCRACY IN THE SUB-SAHARAN SETTING: TOWARD A WORKING DEFINITION -- FACTORS THAT IMPACT THE SUB-SAHARAN DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS -- Physical Resources -- Historical Factors -- Early Civilizations -- Present-Day Civilizations -- Influences of Colonial Rule -- Economic Woes and Recovery Efforts -- The Deficit Crisis -- Recovery Efforts -- Social and Cultural Conditions -- Fast Population Growth -- Rapid Urbanization -- Disease, Health Care, and AIDS -- HIV/AIDS -- Other Social and Cultural Conditions -- SUB-SAHARAN MOVES TOWARD POLITICAL DEMOCRACY -- Democracy since Independence -- Democratization Process Undertaken in the 1989-1997 Period -- 1989 -- 1990 -- 1991 -- 1992 -- 1993 -- States Struggling or Straggling in the Democratization Process -- States Struggling for Minimal Democracy -- States in which Minimal Democracy Has Yet to Take Roots -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8 Prolegomena to an African-Western Ethics and Theory of Rights -- INTRODUCTION.; RELATIVISM, MULTICULTURALISM, AND A COMMON ETHICS -- RIGHTS -- A CASE FOR CROSS-CULTURAL VALUES -- The Yanomamo: Overcoming Substantial Differences -- Cross-Cultural Appreciation of Cultures -- PROTECTIONISM AND RIGHTS -- AN AFRICAN-WESTERN VIEW OF RIGHTS -- Five Prolegomic Themes -- NOTES -- PART IV Political Economy and the Management of Change -- 9 Toward Democracy and Security in Africa: What Prospects Exist for the Sustainable Development of Civil Societies? -- AFRICA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CULTURE IN THE 1990S -- CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CONTINENT -- CHALLENGES FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- CONCLUSION: WHAT PROSPECTS EXIST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 Nigeria: The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy in a Restructuring Economy -- INTRODUCTION -- AGRICULTURE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIAN ECONOMY -- AGRICULTURAL POLICY, 1970-85 -- STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM AND AGRICULTURAL POLICIES -- THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY FOR NIGERIA -- A REVIEW OF THE ; AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF NIGERIA -- ARABLE FARMING -- PASTORAL FARMING -- CONCLUSION: A CRITIQUE OF AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE, 1985-98 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 11 Women and Sustainable Development in Africa -- CRITIQUING DEVELOPMENT -- AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT CRISIS -- ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND GENDER BIAS -- GENDER BIAS IN AGRICULTURE -- GENDER BIAS IN THE NONAGRICULTURAL ECONOMY -- GENDER BIAS, POPULATION GROWTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT -- THE GLOBAL ECONOMY VERSUS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART V Regional Integration and Sustainable Development -- 12 Evaluation of the State of Integration in Africa: How to Strengthen the African Economic Community -- THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) -- ECOWAS Achievements.; Obstacles to Integration within ECOWAS -- How to Strengthen ECOWAS -- THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION OF WEST AFRICA (UEMOA) -- UEMOA Achievements -- UEMOA Obstacles -- How to Strengthen UEMOA -- THE COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA (COMESA) -- COMESA Achievements -- Obstacles to Integration within COMESA -- How to Strengthen COMESA -- SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC), THE SUCCESSOR ORGANIZATION TO THE SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION CONFERENCE (SADCC) -- Achievements of SADC -- Obstacles to Integration within SADC -- Cases of Success in Project-Led Development -- Toward Building SADC Political Strength and Organization -- Impact of Trade Reform on Trade and Industrial Structures -- How to Strengthen SADC -- THE CENTRAL AFRICAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (CEEAC) -- CEEAC Achievements -- CEEAC Obstacles -- How to Strengthen CEEAC -- THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL AFRICA (CEMAC) -- CONCLUSION -- 13 West African Regionalism Revisited: Cooperative Management of the Senegal and Gambia Water Resources -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- SENEGAL RIVER BASIN ORGANIZATION -- ORGANIZATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAMBIA RIVER BASIN -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 14 The Politics of Regional Integration and Development in Africa: Issues, Limitations, and Prospects -- ISSUES AND EFFORTS TOWARD AFRICAN INTEGRATION -- AFRICAN EFFORTS TOWARD INTEGRATION -- THE POLITICS AND LIMITATIONS OF AFRICAN INTEGRATION EFFORTS -- Lack of Mutual Confidence and Trust -- Low Level of Cross-Border Trade Relations -- Poverty of African Political Economy -- Lack of Sustainable Political Will and Lack of Security Climate -- The Limitation of Institutional Mechanism -- Challenges of the New World Order and Globalization -- PROSPECTS OF AFRICAN INTEGRATION SCHEMES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PART VI Conclusion.; 15 Redefining the African State: Political Capacity in the Post-Reform Era -- THE COLONIAL LEGACY OF THE STATE -- THE AFRICAN STATE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE -- REFORM AND STATE POLITICAL CAPACITY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Index -- About the Contributors.