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Beyond the Rhetoric: Essays on Africa's Development Challenges
Beyond the Rhetoric: Essays on Africa's Development Challenges

There are many analyses of Africa’s developmental challenges, most cloaked in fashionable buzzwords, semantics, grand theories and media-friendly mellifluous phrases. Dr Chinua Akukwe goes beyond the rhetoric to pose a simple question: what can be done? With policymakers and general readers in mind, he discusses and proffers solutions to a number of current co...

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Somalia: Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa
Somalia: Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa

Since the final collapse of Somalia’s repressive regime in 1991, Somalia has presented the world not only with the most profound case of state collapse witnessed in modern times but also with one of the most intriguing cases of political fragmentation, armed conflicts, lawlessness and statelessness. Inevitably the last 20 years of statelessness and chaos has lef...

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African Union: Pan African Analytical Foundations
African Union: Pan African Analytical Foundations

The monograph advances a sociological, political and politico-economic theoretic argument for African unity. The conceptual system is based on the philosophy of polyrhythmicity. The methods and techniques of the argument are drawn from the logic of polyrhythmics where conflicts in cultural differences as revealed in Africa’s diversity are viewed as strength and ...

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Polyrhythmicity: Foundations of African Philosophy
Polyrhythmicity: Foundations of African Philosophy

The modern works on African philosophy have not been integrated and fully connected to Africa’s antiquity in order to provide a foundational unity for further intellectual refinement. The philosophical dimensions of humanism, Nkrumah’s concept of categorial conversion, African concepts of duality, polarity, unity, continual creation and democratic ideals m...

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twentytwelve
twentytwelve

The year is 2012. The global conflict that first manifested itself in the attack on the twin towers and broadened and deepened with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq has continued through the first decade of the new millennium and beyond, bringing with it ever increasing hatred and misery. A broken backed Britain battered by global economic collapse and seemingly ...

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Broken Dreams (2nd edition)
Broken Dreams (2nd edition)

Amid the smouldering tension of impending civil war, Pete Gutter Ogwu and his wife Teresa are forced to flee their home in western Nigeria, leaving behind a young son and their housemaid. Adopted by Madam Cash, Femi grows up to be an idealistic socialist writer, convinced that he is destined for greatness. Bimbo, the result of a fetish union between Ogwu and a local m...

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Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovations Systems for ICT in Brazil, China, India, Thailand and Southern Africa
Bridging the Digital Divide: Innovations Systems for ICT in Brazil, China, India, Thailand and Southern Africa

“The impressive advances of information and communication technologies (ICT) in some Asian countries have led some people to proclaim a fundamental change in the world economy. It is essential still to study the experience of developing countries thoroughly and critically. The authors and editors have made an admirable contribution to make such an evaluation and...

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Globalisation, Inequalities and the Commodification of Life and Wellbeing (With Foreword by Samir Amin)
Globalisation, Inequalities and the Commodification of Life and Wellbeing (With Foreword by Samir Amin)

(With a Foreword by Samir Amin)   Wealth and money, which are meant to be sources of human happiness and facilitators of good social relations has instead become a monstrosity beyond human control. The unbridled quest to make money and accumulate wealth as well as assign social signification on the basis of the outcome of individuals’ efforts in...

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As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Discourse
As They See It: The Development of the African AIDS Discourse

African AIDS, in the West, is often associated with media images of skeletal, forlorn-looking and dying Africans inviting the sympathy of the viewer or reader. Associated with these images are often motleys of subtly hidden narratives - poverty, promiscuity, failed leadership, impending Armageddon, and lately the greed and heartlessness of Western drugs companies who ...

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From Conflict to Collaboration: Building Peace in Nigeria's Oil-Producing Communities
From Conflict to Collaboration: Building Peace in Nigeria's Oil-Producing Communities

One of the major policy challenges for the US following the events of September 11 2001 and their aftermaths has been how to reduce the country’s dependence on oil from the Middle East. There have been suggestions of policy shifts in Washington in which Africa’s share of US oil imports will rise dramatically over the next few years.   Nigeria, one o...

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