Imagining the United States of Africa: Discourses on the Way Forward (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498507752)

This book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa's adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.


Author: E. Ike Udogu
ISBN-10: 1498507751
ISBN-13: 9781498507752
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2015
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.11h x 7.13w x 0.75d