Overview
- Analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa
- Evaluates the academic and policy debate about "African rising"
- Presents innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation
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This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as “Africa rising.” The book presents a rigorous evaluation of the Africa rising debate and consequently offers innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Conceptual and Contextual Background
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Interrogating the Global Dimensions of Africa Rising
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The Regional Imperatives of Africa Rising
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Specific National Contexts and “the Forgotten Africa”
Reviews
–Temitope Oriola, Joint Editor-in-Chief of African Security, President of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) and Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada.
In a moment of political and economic uncertainty throughout the continent, this volume charts out new paths, grounded in interdisciplinary research and rigorous evidence, to futures beyond sanguine declarations of 'Africa Rising' and their celebration of a failed neo-liberal model.
–Adam Branch, Director, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge.This is a comprehensive, timely, and serious interrogation of Africa rising discourses from a multidisciplinary perspective. Africa cannot rise if the multi-layered challenges and opportunities of security, governance, and development are not fully grasped. This anthology is, therefore, a rigorous and empirically grounded contribution to the debate and understanding of Africa’s contemporary condition and prospects. It is an uncompromising call to jettison destructive economic and governance models and to adopt frameworks that are sustainable, accountable, and truly transformative.
–Professor Ismail Rashid, Department of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kenneth Omeje is Director, Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult in Bradford, UK; Visiting Professor of Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Governance, Security and Development Nexus
Book Subtitle: Africa Rising
Editors: Kenneth Omeje
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49348-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49347-9Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49350-9Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49348-6Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 397
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Politics, Regional Development, Development Policy, Governance and Government