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Varying Form of Title: | Whither the African Renaissance?
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Other authors / contributors: | Olaniyan, Richard, editor.
Ifidon, Ehimika A., editor.
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ISBN: | 9781527503632 1527503631 9781527509528 1527509524 1527503631
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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Summary: | This volume reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. Africa, on the eve of the 'independence revolution', was the continent of hope and high expectations. By the third decade of independence, optimism had been replaced by dismality. African states had been beset by ethno-political squabbles, military rule, civil wars, Islamic and insurgent movements, extreme poverty and disease. With the ascent of redemocratization in the 1990s and of 'new' pan-Africanism derived from the formation of the African Union, Africa appeared set to claim its vaunted destiny. This b.
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Other form: | Print version: Contemporary issues in Africa's development. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527503631
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