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African Union and the Developmental Transformation of Africa: Challenges, Achievement and Prospects

European Journal of Sustainable Development

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Title African Union and the Developmental Transformation of Africa: Challenges, Achievement and Prospects
 
Creator Adebola Rafiu, BAKARE
 
Description Over the past decades we have witnessed developmental growth across Asia and the riseof emerging economies like China, India, Singapore, and Malaysia thus giving birth to theepithet; the “Asian Tigers”, but Africa has suffered from relative economic stagnation andpoor development. This paper evaluates the activities of AU with respect to thesespecificities in tackling past and present challenges facing the continent in the wave ofAfro-pessimists’ argument that Africa cannot claim its place in the 21st century. The paperidentified the challenges facing the AU in coordinating African developmentaltransformation but recognised the fact that Africa of the end of the first decade of the 21stcentury is not exactly the same as the Africa of the early sixties in term of developmentalimprovement. The study recommended that AU focus on issues such as the high mobilityof African people, and its consequences in terms of citizenship rights; the issue of naturalresource management and food security; the recurrent problem of African integration witha focus on the issue of common borders and most importantly, the issue of competingregionalism especially on the polarisation of the continent along Anglo-francophonedelineation. The paper adopted qualitative methodology.Keywords: Colonialism, Good Governance, Economic Growth, Decolonisation, Slavery,Conflict Management
 
Publisher European Center of Sustainable Development
 
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Date 2014-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/112
10.14207/ejsd.2014.v3n1p67
 
Source European Journal of Sustainable Development; Vol 3, No 1; 67-86
2239-6101
2239-5938
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/112/106
 
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