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Book Synopsis A Profile of African Countries by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book A Profile of African Countries written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a profile of African countries and an introduction to Africa as a whole. Subjects covered include a brief history of the African continent since the advent of colonial rule, the continent's racial and ethnic diversity, a look at a number of countries from a historical and contemporary perspective, Africa's vast resources and economic potential, the new scramble for Africa, and much more. It's helpful to those who are learning about Africa for the first time and those who don't know much about the continent. Even those who know about the continent may find this work to be useful.
Book Synopsis Africa A to Z: Continental and Country Profiles by : Esterhuysen, Pieter
Download or read book Africa A to Z: Continental and Country Profiles written by Esterhuysen, Pieter and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of the first two editions of this book necessitated a third revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the first edition appeared in 1998. Africa is a vast and fascinating continent whose population has exceeded the one billion mark. Africa A-Z attempts to provide, in a concise manner, the facts for an elementary understanding of the continent and its complex problems. The book falls into two main sections; the five chapters on the first main section focus on the continent as a whole, dealing with its physical and human diversity, its eventful history and Africans' struggle for economic survival. The second main section contains profiles of 58 independent countries, ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Presentation of the profiles is uniform, in that the same themes are covered in each profile. The data panels with the profiles contain data not provided in the text. The maps, appearing throughout the text were produced by AISA's cartography department.
Book Synopsis The Demographic Profile of African Countries by :
Download or read book The Demographic Profile of African Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confronting the Region by : Sanusha Naidu
Download or read book Confronting the Region written by Sanusha Naidu and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindful of the future economic and social sustainability of the region, as well as the subcontinent's future in terms of the African Renaissance, this study provides an analysis of the developmental and institutional opportunities and challenges that confront southern Africa.
Book Synopsis Africa After Independence by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book Africa After Independence written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the early years of independence and the problems African countries faced soon after the end of colonial rule. Many of those problems still exist today. They include poverty and underdevelopment; adoption of alien ideologies and economic and political systems; structural flaws of the modern African state and its institutions inherited at independence; nation-building, democratization, national integration, and ethnoregional rivalries among others. It is also a historical study of the continent since the partition of Africa by the imperial powers and of the struggle for independence. It also focuses on the continent's demographic composition, shedding some light on the complexity and diversity of the world's second largest continent. The history of Africa's indigenous peoples and their earliest contact with foreigners provides a background to this telescopic survey. The sixties was one of the most important decades in the history of Africa and this work provides a balanced perspective on those years when Africans celebrated the end of colonial rule on their continent. It is a compact study covering a vast expanse of territory from the advent of imperial rule to the attainment of sovereign status for African countries during the sixties and the problems they faced in those years. As a demographic portrait, it excels in depicting the continent as a tapestry that reflects the racial diversity and multiethnic composition of this vast land mass, the second largest after Asia. And as a historical and political analysis, it addresses some of the most important issues in the post-colonial era including the Cold War, with the Congo figuring prominently in the analysis as thefirst theatre of combat and super-power rivalry in the early sixties on the African continent. The dawn of freedom provided opportunities and challenges for the young African nations as they tried to modernize and consolidate their independence in a world dominated by major powers and contending ideologies. It was a rude awakening to the harsh realities of nationhood. One of these was the desire by the major powers to turn African countries into client states as the two ideological camps, East and West, competed for world domination. As Julius Nyerere warned, "We are not going to allow our friends to choose our enemies for us." One of the most contentious grounds for this hegemonic control was, of course, the Congo, right in the middle of the continent. It became the bleeding heart of Africa as the country was turned into a combat theatre mainly between the surrogate forces of the West and the Congolese nationalist forces supported by a number of African countries and by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The Congo imbroglio since the turbulent sixties mainly as a result of foreign intrigue and intervention is one of the most important subjects addressed in this book. And it raises serious questions that have profound implications even today for a continent mired in conflict; this time ignited by the Africans themselves in many - but not in all - cases. Yet, prospects for the world's poorest and most embattled continent are not bleak if Africans seek their own solutions to their own problems in this post-Cold War era of globalization dominated by the industrialized nations. The book includes many photos from the early sixties, the dawn of a new era when Africancountries won independence, which Oginga Odinga described as "Not Yet Uhuru."
Book Synopsis Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs by : African Union Commission
Download or read book Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs written by African Union Commission and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations by : Keith Lye
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Nations and Civilizations written by Keith Lye and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetical entries cover the major historic civilizations and fifty-two existing countries in Africa, detailing their political and economic systems, culture, and important political personalities.
Download or read book Africa A to Z written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of the first two editions of this book necessitated a third revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the first edition appeared in 1998. Africa is a vast and fascinating continent whose population has exceeded the one billion mark. Africa A-Z attempts to provide, in a concise manner, the facts for an elementary understanding of the continent and its complex problems. The book falls into two main sections; the five chapters on the first main section focus on the continent as a whole, dealing with its physical and human diversity, its eventful history and Africans- struggle for economic survival. The second main section contains profiles of 58 independent countries, ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Presentation of the profiles is uniform, in that the same themes are covered in each profile. The data panels with the profiles contain data not provided in the text. The maps, appearing throughout the text were produced by AISA-s cartography department.
Book Synopsis What Went Wrong with Africa by : Roel van der Veen
Download or read book What Went Wrong with Africa written by Roel van der Veen and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last fifty years have seen unprecedented changes in people s standards of living all over the world. Despite explosive population growth, it has proved possible to dramatically elevate the quality of life. On average people s lives have improved, all over the world, on every continent. Except Africa. Africa is the only large, contiguous region left out of the worldwide rise in prosperity. Why is that? Why has Africa failed to develop? Roel van der Veen (the Netherlands, 1957) is a historian by training. He deals with sub-Saharan Africa in his daily work. In "What went wrong with Africa" he describes the recent history of the continent and explores the causes of its widespread poverty, the AIDS epidemic and the misrule, corruption and disintegration afflicting so many African states."
Download or read book Burundi written by Nigel Watt and published by C Hurst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events, including mass killings of over 200,000 people. The country remained in a state of simmering civil war until 2004, after which Julius Nyerere and Nelson Mandela took turns as mediators in a lengthy, and eventually successful, peace process which has endowed Burundi with new institutions, including a new constitution, that led to the election of a majority Hutu government in 2005. But there are many problems still to solve apart from ethnic tensions, above all the entrenched poverty of most Burundians, which has seen it designated by NGOs as one of the most deprived countries on earth. Nigel Watt's book discusses the troubled political fortunes of this beautiful, yet disturbed country in the heart of Central Africa. He traces the origins of its political crises, sheds light on Burundi's recent history by means of interviews with leading participants and those whose lives have been affected by horrific events, and helps demystify the country's ethnic divisions.
Book Synopsis The Five Most Competitive African Countries as a Benchmark for Other African Nations by : A. -K. Rademacher
Download or read book The Five Most Competitive African Countries as a Benchmark for Other African Nations written by A. -K. Rademacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,5, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, course: International Seminar, language: English, abstract: This term paper on hand analyses the competitiveness of five African nations. Depending on the data from the WEF, five African nations have been chosen. These are in detail South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt. The main goal of this paper was to analyze these countries in their competitiveness and benchmark them as an example for other African nations. Therefore this paper first gives an overview on the current political situation, the geographical conditions and the historic background to each country. Each country then is analyzed in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector and gives details on the main economical challenges of each country. The benchmarking deals with the performance in different categories which are Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency, Economic Performance and Infrastructure. The paper on hand comes to the conclusion that the selected five countries are indeed very competitive countries within the African continent. They all have dealt with problematic fields of their economy in the past in their individual way and thus improved their performance. The majority of these five countries still have to work harder on these problematic areas to reach a worldwide competitive level, some of them have already reached this level to some extent. The necessary background information and statistics have been taken from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and various reliable internet resources. The paper on hand analyses the data within the past 16 years or more, depending on the question analysed.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of African Politics by : Nic Cheeseman
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Politics written by Nic Cheeseman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive and cutting edge examination of this important continent, Routledge Handbook of African Politics surveys the key debates and controversies, dealing with each of the major issues to be found in Africa’s politics today. Structured into 6 broad areas, the handbook features over 30 contributions focused around: The State Identity Conflict Democracy and Electoral Politics Political Economy & Development International Relations Each chapter deals with a specific topic, providing an overview of the main arguments and theories and explaining the empirical evidence that they are based on, drawing on high-profile cases such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. The Handbook also contains new contributions on a wide range of topical issues, including terrorism, the growing influence of China, civil war, and transitional justice, making it required reading for non-specialists and experts alike. Featuring both established scholars and emerging researchers, this is a vital resource for all students of African Studies, democratization, conflict resolution and Third World politics.
Book Synopsis The five most competitive African countries as a benchmark for other African nations by : A.-K. Rademacher
Download or read book The five most competitive African countries as a benchmark for other African nations written by A.-K. Rademacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,5, University of Cooperative Education Mannheim, course: International Seminar, language: English, abstract: This term paper on hand analyses the competitiveness of five African nations. Depending on the data from the WEF, five African nations have been chosen. These are in detail South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt. The main goal of this paper was to analyze these countries in their competitiveness and benchmark them as an example for other African nations. Therefore this paper first gives an overview on the current political situation, the geographical conditions and the historic background to each country. Each country then is analyzed in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector and gives details on the main economical challenges of each country. The benchmarking deals with the performance in different categories which are Government Efficiency, Business Efficiency, Economic Performance and Infrastructure. The paper on hand comes to the conclusion that the selected five countries are indeed very competitive countries within the African continent. They all have dealt with problematic fields of their economy in the past in their individual way and thus improved their performance. The majority of these five countries still have to work harder on these problematic areas to reach a worldwide competitive level, some of them have already reached this level to some extent. The necessary background information and statistics have been taken from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and various reliable internet resources. The paper on hand analyses the data within the past 16 years or more, depending on the question analysed.
Book Synopsis International Consumer Product Testing Across Cultures and Countries by :
Download or read book International Consumer Product Testing Across Cultures and Countries written by and published by ASTM International. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Countries by : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Download or read book African Countries written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by Pan African Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to African countries and to Africa as a whole. We learn about every African country, the land and its people, and the history since the advent of colonial rule. We also learn about the present, including the different ethnic and racial groups in every country in Africa where more than 1,000 languages are spoken. It is a comprehensive survey of the African continent and its people and countries and is intended for members of the general public and the academic community. For those who don't know much about African countries, this work should serve as an excellent introduction. And for those who already know about Africa, there is still much to learn from this book, written in a simple, engaging style. Included are maps for all the countries covered in this volume.
Book Synopsis Africa: a Market Profile by : Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair
Download or read book Africa: a Market Profile written by Thomas Lucien Vincent Blair and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Africa Is a Continent Not a Country by : Sylvester I. Okoro
Download or read book Africa Is a Continent Not a Country written by Sylvester I. Okoro and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Africa a continent or country? This book helps to answer this seemly question. Africa Is A Continent, Not A Country book is designed to get readers thinking about their knowledge of Africa. It is a quick read. You can finish the book in less time. Africa is the 2nd largest continent besides Asia. Many readers would agree with me that they know little about Africa except what the "elite" western media principally focus on developmental challenges and crisis in some African countries. Not only that, many of these western media including some politicians collectively use Africa as if it is just one country. Consequently, this book is aimed at letting its readers know that Africa is a 54 countries continent. Each country has it's successes and challenges like any other country. After reading this book, you will be able to know: - Names of 54 different African countries and when they became politically independent. - Names of some notable pre and post-independence African Leaders. - Map of Africa with each country. - Some causes of arm conflict in Africa. - Africa hosted World soccer (football) Championship in South Africa in 2010. - That the world's largest desert is Africa's Sahara. - Africa is the second largest continent, next to Asia. - Africa's longest river Nile is the world's longest river.
