{"product_id":"imagining-the-united-states-of-e-ike-udogu-9781498507752","title":"Imagining the United States of Africa: Discourses on the Way Forward","description":"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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. Ike Udogu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1498507751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498507752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 7.13w x 0.75d","brand":"E. Ike Udogu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124185264383,"sku":"9781498507752","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16554551-097b-4569-89bf-ee38cffc1525.jpg?v=1687435246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-the-united-states-of-e-ike-udogu-9781498507752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}