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African Renaissance
Published Since: 2004. AR is one of the longest surviving social science journals published by Africans. It is accredited by DHET (the South African regulator of Higher Education) and indexed by SCOPUS, SABINET, EBSCO, ProQuest, ERIH PLUS, COPERNICUS, IBSS and J-Gate.
Publication Frequency: Quarterly (Four times a year) (ISSN 1744-2532 E- ISSN 2516-5305). SCImago Journal Ranking for 2022: Quartile: Q3; H-Index: 6; Citescore: 0.16

 Africa is expected to have been more developed and progressive considering her endowment of huge natural resources. These abundant natural resources, if adequately managed, could have transformed Africa and elevated it well above other continents. However, despite the availability of natural resources in many African countries, Africa has remained very poor, largely underdeveloped, and dependent on other continents. Colonialism has partly been blamed for the reasons why Africa could not effectively manage her natural resources and for the slow progress and development of Africa. Africa’s natural resources were illegally transferred for the industrialization of Europe, while Africa suffers from poverty, malnutrition, and an infrastructural deficit. It was hoped that as Africa broke away from the shackles of colonialism, significant progress and development would be achieved. African leaders were brimming with hope, optimism, and confidence that Africa would be highly develop............

Central to Africa’s growth and development is the collective spirit of rebirth and revival to rescue Africa from its inherent and endemic challenges. These challenges have significantly contributed to Africa’s classification as a backward and developing continent. Indeed, issues of poverty, unemployment, inequalities, hunger, malnutrition, weak institutions, bad leadership or governance, corruption, limited access to education and health, policy gaps, recurrent electoral malpractices, war, insecurity, and political instability have partly made Africa backward and restricted its economic growth and development. Expectedly, Africa, with its resources and young population, is hoped to have been more developed, but the reality on the ground in most African nations is contrary to this popular expectation, as the continent is still largely ravaged by insurgency, leadership problems, poverty, food and human insecurity, conflict, instability, and other socio-economic, political, cu............

Despite Africa’s endowment of natural and human resources, it still struggles with the inherent problems of governance, corruption, lack of transparency and accountability, insecurity, poverty, malnutrition, the re-emergence of military interventions, mediocrity in government, disregard for the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. These ugly conditions have adverse implications for Africa’s economic growth and distort public spending, as well as undermine domestic revenue mobilization for sustainable development. Currently, Africa faces multiple crises emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the ongoing challenges of climate change, which have collectively impugned its efforts to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs). This precarious condition in which Africa finds itself brings to the fore the need for Africa to embrace good governance and consolidate her democracy. One of the indicators of consolidated democracy is good governance, which in ............

Africa’s contemporary problems have partly been traced to the period of colonialism. Although colonialism bequeathed to Africa some legacies, its negative consequences outweigh the positive ones and have continued to underdeveloped Africa. Prior to this period, Africa had developed a well-organized indigenous administrative system built around strong traditional institutions and abundant natural and human capital resources. Despite this initiative and Africa's wealth of resources, the continent was largely perceived as a land with groups of people who had little or no knowledge of how to effectively harness and maximize their limitless resources. This belief partly stimulated the arrival of colonialism and the scramble for Africa, which consequently brought lots of problems to Africa. It partitions Africa and bequeaths it with inappropriate border designs that have partly contributed to boundary disputes and migration problems in Africa. One of the recurring challenges confronti............

Before the advent of self-reliance, governance, and independence across African countries, it was hoped to be a continent of opportunities and high expectations. However, the reality in most African countries since independence shows that this optimism has been deflated and replaced with drawbacks. Governance crises, leadership issues, tainted and heavily politicized electioneering processes, ethno-political stumbling blocks, the re-emergence of military takeovers of democratic governments, terrorism, banditry, xenophobic crises, and extreme poverty and disease have all plagued African states. The wave of pan-Africanism and democratization in Africa in the 1990s tends to rekindle the hope that Africa is great and a continent with progressive growth and development. Despite this hope and Africa’s endowment of human and natural resources, the continent still remains largely underdeveloped. Today, most African countries suffer from problems of insecurity, violence, economic hardship............

Despite its vast resources, Africa is at a crossroads and has slowly assumed the position of various development concerns, prompting many on the continent, including politicians, scholars, women, and other important stakeholders, to advocate for Africa's development in the global system. Africa has been branded the most underdeveloped region for far too long because the continent has been recirculated by people with little or no vision to transform the continent from its beldam state. The continent's current generation of leaders lacks the renaissance spirits needed to usher in a new and developed Africa. Africa requires a rebirth or a new generation of leaders with reviving spirits to face a variety of challenges, including region fragmentation, history and knowledge deficits, re-emergence of military takeovers, economic downturns, poverty, Covid-19 fallouts, relaying the foundations of the post-colonial state, undemocratic practices and human rights abuses, and the implementation of ............

The 7th Covenant University Conference on E-Business and E-Government in Nigeria 2020 (CUCEEN2020) held from May 26 – 28, 2020. CUCEEN2020 was dubbed “Innovation and Sustainable Development in the Information Age.” It was a congregation of scholars, industry professionals and government representatives where critical issues of innovation and digital government were interrogated with a view to evolving an all-encompassing and integrative strategy for sustainable development particularly, in the information age. This special issue of the African Renaissance includes selected papers presented at the conference by scholars from different disciplines and institutions with a wide range of issues relating to the conference theme using diverse methodology. The articles in this issue can be classified into two main areas namely, e-governance and development related studies. The paper by Aderonke A. Oni, Charles K. Ayo, Goddy-Worlu Rowland, Geteloma Victor, Abayomi-Zannu and Ayo Richard ............

 Continued scientific research activities targeted at giving policy directions and solutions to Africa's myriad challenges are critical to the continent's progress and development. These challenges have stymied Africa's socio-economic and political development. Africa, unlike other continents, has lagged in terms of progress and development, owing to issues such as corruption, conflict, election fraud, ethnic cleavages or identity, race and racism, xenophobic hostility, and resource scarcity, among others. While other continents appear to have discovered solutions to these problems, Africa continues to be tormented by them. It has recently had a growing breakdown in a democratic government in some states, making it one of the continents with the worst histories of military coups, democratic regime distortions, and violations of fundamental human rights in the twenty-first century. Power grabs, unlawful military takeovers, and coups d'état are all too often in Africa these d............

Africa's burgeoning population and the inability to address its growing problems have branded the continent as the world's most troubled and underdeveloped continent. Inequality and rising income differences between African states and citizens have matched this, making some African states more desirable as migratory destinations. Migration within and across Africa is a known factor of hatred, insecurity, and violence among Africans in Africa. Apart from migration tensions, the emergence of Covid-19 has broken Africa's efforts to build its image and capabilities in the global system. The Covid-19 new normal has not only slowed down growth and development in Africa it has also impoverished lives and livelihoods. As a result, Africa is affected by difficulties that have tarnished its image in the global system. Poverty, rising unemployment, xenophobic violence, economic slump, religious and ethnic conflicts, climate change, land grab disputes, human trafficking, pandemics, inequality, cri............

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