Africa and the challenges of the twenty-first century : keynote sddresses delivered at the 13th general assembly of CODESRIA (Rabat, Morocco, December 2011) / edited by Ebrima Sall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sall, Ebrima, editor.

Series:

Codesria book series.

Codesria Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Economic aspects--Africa--Congresses.

Globalization.

Globalization--Political aspects--Africa--Congresses.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dakar, Senegal : Codesria, 2015.

Summary:

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century . Some of the reasons that influenced the choice of this theme were to do with how Africa should position itself in the new global political and economic order in the context of an increasingly complex neoliberal globalisation. Changes in intercultural relations at the global level, climate change, poverty, rapid urbanisation, the ICTs revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world and the phenomenon of emerging powers of the South are some of the realities of our world that are widely and extensively discussed by both academics and policy-makers. This book contains the statutory lectures of the 13th General Assembly. Each one speaks to major challenges that African and the Global South are facing in this second decade of the Twenty-first Century: neoliberal globalisation, capital flight, the land question, gender relations, with a particular focus on matriarchy; and universalism."

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Contributors

Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities

Global Issues, Global Challenges

Africa of the Twenty-first Century

The Casablanca Conference, 50 Years on

1. The Challenges facing Africa in the Twenty-first Century

2. Development in a Turbulent World

Limits to the Current Neoliberal Growth and Development Strategy

Development Strategies for the Future

3. The Political Economy of Transformation in Zimbabwe: Radicalisation, Structural Change and Resistance

Introduction: Radicalism, Structural Change and Reform

Historical context of the Fast Track Land Reform

Radicalised Land Reform Movement: Decentralised, Anti-Bureaucratic Alliance

Structural Reform, Renewed Developmentalism and Economic Nationalism

State Interventionism, Indigenisation and New Developmentalism

New Agrarian Movements: Rural Cooperativism and Democratisation?

Concluding Remarks: Lessons from Zimbabwe

Notes

References

4. Out of Africa: Aid versus Capital Flight

5. Let My Work Not Be in Vain: Doing Matriarchy, Thinking "Matriarchitarian" with Africa in the Twenty-first Century

South Africa

The Nile Valley

Contexts and Meeting Points

Leadership at the grassroots

Conclusion

Reference

6. On the Postcolonial and the Universal?

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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ISBN:

2-86978-658-1

OCLC:

957435907