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The Challenges of Administrative Political and Developmental Renewal in Africa

Author : John W. Forje
Publisher : Nova Novinka
ISBN 13 : 9781612090276
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Challenges of Administrative Political and Developmental Renewal in Africa written by John W. Forje and published by Nova Novinka. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of a 'developmental state and the challenges of governance' remains topical, and is hoped that the views expressed here will put the various issues firmly at the centre of the debate, calling for transparency, social justice, the rule of law and accountability agenda that sows the seeds of a genuine renewal of state and society's role in embodying and shaping democracy on the African continent. There is need for building capacities for sustainable development to bring Africa in line with global development. This book discusses the need and political and developmental renewal in Africa by presenting and examining a series of essays on the topic.

The Challenges of Administrative Political and Developmental Renewal in Africa

Author : John W. Forje
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536112641
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (126 download)

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From Crisis to Renewal

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491686
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book From Crisis to Renewal written by Kempe Ronald Hope and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with crisis and renewal in African development policy and management. It digs deep into, takes stock of, and thoroughly analyzes the nature, impact, and future of development policy and management on the continent. It demonstrates the failure of post-independence policy and management in most of Africa, traces the emergence and results of reform measures, and advocates the lessons of success for the rest of Africa derived from Botswana’s approach to sustainable development and its achievement of economic prosperity and the maintenance of political stability and good governance. It concludes, rather optimistically, that the prospects for sustainable development are much better now than they have ever been before with the 21st century likely to be hailed as ‘The African Century’ – bringing with it a durable peace and sustainable growth.

Public Administration in Africa

Author : Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351552759
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Administration in Africa by : Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad

Download or read book Public Administration in Africa written by Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading regional scholars, Public Administration in Africa: Performance and Challenges examines the complexities of the art of governance from the unique African perspective. The editors bring together a cohesive study of the major issues and regions by taking an analytic approach with the strong problem-solution application. Regions addressed range from South Africa, Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Mauritius, and Botswana. Themes include colonialism, reform, poverty, economy, decentralization, financing, media, political structures, and more. Beginning with an analysis of the relationship of policy design and its destination, service delivery, the book discusses the historical development of a state that has gone through upheavals in government and explores a decayed political economy that ultimately results in a need for sweeping measures. The text examines the issues emerging policy-makers in Africa must tackle, namely poverty and the denial or lack of resources to keep a dignified human life. It highlights how the media can be a catalyst for good governance and provides analytical aspects of implementing good governance reforms. The book concludes with an examination of the concepts of decentralization and devolution in measuring service delivery performance and an exploration of Africa’s economic success story. It also details the African Peer Review Mechanisms in selected African countries and provides a holistic analysis of local government functioning in Africa. These features and more make it an interdisciplinary reference for diverse social, economic, political, and administrative issues.

Towards Africa's Renewal

Author : Jeggan C. Senghor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351144421
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Towards Africa's Renewal written by Jeggan C. Senghor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa still finds itself in the clutches of poverty and underdevelopment. The expected benefits from economic restructuring have not been realized and the debt burden continues to weigh heavily on African economies, constraining the possibilities of growth. Problems that have existed since the 1960s remain and links with the global economy continue to increase but fall short of requirements. Against this background it is not surprising that the vast majority of African states will not meet the Millennium Development Goals. The search for political systems that can deliver development have been categorized by cynics as old wine in old bottles with new stickers. As the dividends from globalization elude Africa in the 21st century, it becomes clear that it is a series of failed states, rogue states and even stateless states. This volume brings together leading researchers and analysts to examine issues and identify policy options which can lead to renewal in Africa. It provides an opportunity to reflect and offers a critical multidisciplinary appraisal of the future challenges facing Africa.

Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy

Author : K. Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230393276
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy written by K. Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.

Better Governance and Public Policy

Author : Dele Olowu
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565491602
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Better Governance and Public Policy written by Dele Olowu and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Written by prominent scholars and practitioners of African development policy * Describes recent governance changes in Africa * Analyzes consequences of these changes for institutional reform * Highlights challenges of capacity building for economic liberalization and democratization This is an ideal volume for both students and scholars of African development, as well as anyone interested in the current issues of African governance. Published in association with the African Capacity Building Foundation, this book answers such questions as: What is the relationship between governance and institutional reforms? What is the impact of these reforms on public policy processes? And, what is the link between economic governance and policy research?

Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects

Author : Joseph R. A. Ayee
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869782144
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Reforming the African Public Sector. Retrospect and Prospects written by Joseph R. A. Ayee and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming the African Public Sector: Retrospect and Prospectsis an in-depth and wide-ranging review of the available literature on African public sector reforms. It illustrates several differing country experiences to buttress the main observations and conclusions. It adopts a structural/institutional approach which underpins most of the reform efforts on the continent. To contextualize reform of the public sector and understand its processes, dynamics and intricacies, the book examines the state and state capacity building in Africa, especially when there can be no state without an efficient public sector. In addition, the book addresses a number of theories such as the new institutional economics, public choice and new public management, which have in one way or another influenced most of the initiatives implemented under public sector reform in Africa. There is also a survey of the three phases of public sector reform which have emerged and the balance sheet of reform strategies, namely, decentralization, privatization, deregulation, agencification, co-production and public-private partnerships. It concludes by identifying possible alternative approaches such as developing a vigorous public sector ethos and sustained capacity building to promote and enhance the renewal and reconstruction of the African public sector within the context of the New Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD), good governance and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

African Political Economy

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315479478
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book African Political Economy written by Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a multidisciplinary book that analyses the problems and issues of development in Africa along with the attempts at, and outcomes of, policy reform measures that have been implemented to surmount those problems. Topics covered include the economic crisis in Africa, urbanisation and urban management, uneven development, the socio-economic context of AIDS, bureaucratic corruption and reform, and proposed development solutions.

Perspectives on Thought Leadership for Africaís Renewal

Author : Kondlo, Kwandiwe
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0798304529
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Thought Leadership for Africaís Renewal written by Kondlo, Kwandiwe and published by Africa Institute of South Africa. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines perspectives of emerging and established African scholars on what one could describe as the debate on leadership and the articulation of the life of the mind in Africa's socio-economic, political and cultural life from the time of independence to date. The papers contained in the book cover the following thematic areas: Alternative Leadership Paradigm for Africa's Advancement; African Perspectives on Globalisation and international relations; Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance; Scientific, Technological and Cultural Dimensions of African Development. The first section deals with alternative leadership paradigms for Africa's advancement. It also debates the 'thin line' separating management studies from leadership studies and untangles the hermeneutic complexities in the term 'leadership'. Section two examines among other things, the crucial challenge of globalisation and public ethics and others African perspectives. The section also interrogates the current complexities and credibility deficits in the global governance of trade and towards the end engages philosophical questions about conscience and consciousness in African development and progress. The debates in section three continue to section four and focus on the overall issues of language and liberation, the significance of Multi-, Inter and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches in the analysis of the African continent, appropriate indigenous paradigms for promoting the African renaissance as well as a series of debates on the meaning and prospects of regional integration in Africa's renewal. This provides just a snapshot of a very wide ranging and interesting debate contained in the publication.

In the Heat of Africa's Underdevelopment

Author : Forje, John W.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956550957
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book In the Heat of Africa's Underdevelopment written by Forje, John W. and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world go to bed hungry there can be no peace. A sting rich world and a sting poor world cannot cohabit peacefully. How to build a more equitable and balanced world is the challenge facing us. We need to embrace and practice our long-aged concepts of ‘ubuntu’, ‘harambee’ and ‘batho pele’ among others in creating, and consolidating the new world order. Africa is underdeveloped. It requires serious structural modification in our current mindset, thinking and actions which calls for total involvement of every citizen. The ideas advanced in this book are strategies and pathways for dealing with the problems of poverty, corruption, the distribution of power, deterrence, good governance, health, human capacity building and the challenge of bringing about a systemic structural-functional governance construct for the African continent.

Local Governance in Africa

Author : Dele Olowu
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588261731
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Local Governance in Africa written by Dele Olowu and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.

The Future of Africa

Author : W. Forje
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551430
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Africa written by W. Forje and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book on The Future of Africa addresses fundamental genealogical developmental challenges of vital concern to Africa's transformation is premised on the orientation that the continent's future is up to Africans, cognizant of the fact that Africans cohabit the same diversified and inter-connected planet with others. The issues addressed include: political, economic, social and technological reconstruction of Africa, the richest but the least developed part of the world; the need to fight the pandemic of inequality and social injustice; chronic corruption; the urgent need to usher the rule of law and of putting in place strategies addressing abject poverty; the empowerment of the female gender and youths; the comprehensive development and proper utilisation of indigenous knowledge systems in partnership with modern science and technology to energize infrastructural development and the industrialisation prowess of the continent. The book unveils vast inadequacies that need to be rectified to give the continent a new face uplift. It is a comprehensive, Afro-centric cross-cutting edge publication that structurally examines outstanding issues plaguing Africa as it advances critical priority policy proposals for the future of the continent. Policymakers, students, organisations and institutions will find the book indispensable for the sustainable transformation of the continent. The underlying message is 'development with a human face' and without leaving anyone behind.

Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa's Underdevelopment

Author : W. Forje
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956551880
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa's Underdevelopment written by W. Forje and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravelling the mysteries of Africas underdevelopment presents an Afrocentric ideological understanding of the continents fragmentation; a scientific and objective (Mijadala) discourse as well as an approach of how to move progressively and sustainably Africa forward. The breadth and depth of the book shows the unwavering impoverishment and urgent need for the continent to stand up and take the bull by the horn. It offers an inspiring means of grappling with the continents problems to build the change we want An African Wealth of Nation not the continent of collapsed, failed states under the governance construct of centralised authoritarian regimes It is a thought-provoking discourse that challenges us all to be inherent participants in the reconstruction of a Brave New Africa far beyond the 21st Century.

Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy

Author : Tshishonga, Ndwakhulu
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)

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Book Synopsis Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy by : Tshishonga, Ndwakhulu

Download or read book Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy written by Tshishonga, Ndwakhulu and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization of Africa and Its Impact on the Global Economy delves into the intricate relationship between democracy, governance, and development in Africa, shedding light on the continent's progress and its implications for the global economy. From its historical context rooted in colonialism and apartheid regimes to the present-day challenges of weak governance and underdevelopment, this book critically examines the factors that have shaped Africa's political and socioeconomic landscape. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of democracy, governance, and development in Africa. It delves into various topics such as models of democracy, electoral systems, political leadership, state building, democratic deficits, political violence, corruption, and the challenges of democratic consolidation. Additionally, it examines the significance of democratic governance, good governance principles, civil society engagement, and political accountability in shaping Africa's political landscape. Through a multi-disciplinary lens encompassing political science, development studies, anthropology, sociology, international relations, and public administration, the book offers a platform for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to engage in critical dialogue and propose innovative strategies for Africa's renewal.

African Institutions

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442239524
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis African Institutions by : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui

Download or read book African Institutions written by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the leading scholar on Africa, this comprehensive text examines three key issue areas in Africa: politics, society, and economy. Featuring many case studies, including Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Morocco, Togo, DRC, Ethiopia, Rwanda, the book provides some explanation of underdevelopment in Africa, linking the historical and colonial realities that hinder democratic consolidation to contemporary African politics, society and economy.

Culture, Development, and Public Administration in Africa

Author : Ogwo J. Umeh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Development, and Public Administration in Africa written by Ogwo J. Umeh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The first text that integrates a cultural context into the study of public administration programs * Covers the whole of southern Africa: South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe * Written jointly by an African professor of public administration and an American political scientist Despite extensive theoretical consideration over the past several decades, the discipline of public administration still suffers from an inability to meet on-the-ground administrative challenges in developing countries. In the past, public administrators have relied upon Western organizational models considered rational and efficient. But in neglecting various social and cultural aspects of any non-Western country, development proceeds in fits and starts. Using southern African nations as an example, the authors argue that emerging societies are poor today thanks to the overreliance on non-local models. Practitioners must consider local cultures--languages, symbols, customs, and rituals--in developing effective administrative practices. They must absorb the experiences of people who know first-hand the dynamics and conditions in these countries. Otherwise, neither citizens nor leaders will manage their affairs and development processes effectively. Written particularly for undergraduate and graduate students in public administration, political science, and comparative and development public administration, but also for policymakers, managers, administrators, and individuals who seek to understand the challenges of organizing and managing development, this book helps foster a culturally sensitive understanding of public administration in a global context.