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Africa in the Age of
Globalisation
Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities
Edited by Edward Shizha and Lamine Diallo,
both at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series
“This book, anchored by a critical reading of historical and contemporary globalisation, analyses and
reiterates the essential conditions for Africa’s development agenda. Drawing from local, regional and
global contexts, the study rightfully reveals the significance of human agency and the institutional
prerequisites for social development in a bold and refreshing manner.”
Korbla P. Puplampu, Grant MacEwan University, Canada
This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an
insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African
perspectives. It provides an interdisciplinary conceptual base that
can effectively guide the planning and implementing of programs for
socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date
scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns
of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa
(politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships
and the role of non-governmental organisations).
Contents: Foreword, M. Raymond Izarali; Preface; Introduction,
Edward Shizha and Lamine Diallo. Part I: Social and Institutional
Development: Globalisation and Africa: critical historical and
deconstructive/reconstructive epistemic reflections, Ali A. Abdi; African
development post-2015: sustainable agency or reversion to dependency?,
Timothy M. Shaw; Democracy and governance in Africa: lessons from
Senegal, Lamine Diallo; Globalisation, sovereign debt and adjustment
programmes in Africa: implications for creditors, debtors and policy
makers in Europe, Gloria T. Emeagwali. Part II: Technology and Global
Partnerships: The paradox of broadband access in sub-Saharan Africa,
Akbar M. Saeed and Oliver Masakure; Aspirations for Senegal: exploring
international NGO partnerships, Kathryn Mossman; Globalisation, NGOs
and multi-sectoral relations: the Zimbabwean experience 1980–2012,
Gilbert Tarugarira; China-Japan rivalry in Africa, Bertha Z. Osei-Hwedie.
Part III: Gender, Migration and Settlement: Evidence based policy-making
in the age of globalisation: measuring the impact of Chinese investments
on women in sub-Saharan Africa, Isioma Ile and Mulugeta F. Dinbabo;
The cracks and the crevices: Rwandan women in the diaspora navigating
gender regimes in Rwanda and Canada, Anna Ainsworth; Gender,
contemporary realities, and the challenges of reconstructing identities
in a transnational context, Phil Okeke-Ihejirika. Part IV: Education and
Globalisation in Africa: Demystifying the misperceptions and realities
about the efficacy of monograde and multigrade pedagogies: Africa’s
response to globalisation in education, Charles Kivunja and
Margaret Sims; Revitalising higher education in the age of globalisation:
the African dilemma, Girmaw Abebe Akalu; Globalising education for
globalised labour markets: brain drain or gain for Africa?, Edward Shizha.
Index.
April 2015 312 pages
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