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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, among other continents, is expected to have been transformed from its description as givers or producers of raw materials by the colonial imperialists, who scrambled for the survival of their countries after the Second World War. To be specific, Africa has been a solid yielding ground for the industrialization of what is today known as Europe and the West through her natural resources, yet it has remained largely impoverished and most backward among the continents in the global system. The continent’s inability to effectively harness its resources for sustainable development is multifaceted, ranging from the despotic influence of the colonial imperialists in the management of Africa’s resources, the nefarious activities of successive African leaders, who ascend power after colonialism, and the spoilt systemic political structure bequeathed to Africa by the colonial government to incessant military interventions in African politics. Research on why Africa is still ve............

The contemporary African state is a descendant of an arbitrary colonial system that was designed as a tool of exploitation, oppression, and dominance. Today, despite Africa’s long years of independence from these colonial administrative units, its origin largely remains exogenous, rather than evolving out of the relationships of groups and individuals in African societies. A state, using the classical definition of Max Weber, is a community of human beings with the control of the lawful and acceptable utilization of force or power within a given territory’. In many respects, the majority of African states hardly possess these features, which is why most of them are classified as fragile, failed, or failing states. It is because Africa consists of states with a community of varied and occasionally clashing linguistic, religious, and ethnic identities; they hardly can control violence or lay claim to the monopoly of force legitimately; their frequent predatory nature fails th............

 This special issue of African Renaissance is a collection of well-articulated interdisciplinary research and discerning discussions of African contemporary issues that advance understanding of the appropriate mitigation strategies that can transform Africa from its present deplorable condition. Indeed, Africa, unlike other continents, has continually grappled with challenges limiting its capacity to attain the much-expected sustainable development. Comparatively, Africa is still suffering from or affected by some of the key indicators of underdevelopment, such as poverty, unemployment, inequality, poor infrastructure, bad governance, state fragility, illegitimate government, corruption, electoral mal-practices, insecurity, service delivery protests, violence, insurgency, military incursions, excessive state coercion, police brutality, weak governmental institutions, absence of rule of law, and abuse of human rights. With Africa’s large scale of arable land and natural resou............

 In contemporary Africa, interests have always centered on how to completely dismantle the grip of the West on the progressive development of the continent. This expectation raises question about the capacity of Africa to effectively cope if the West has been axed from its region, especially on how Africans can galvanize their resources towards the progressive path of development. This suspicion is validated on the grounds that Africa still suffers from the limitations that affected it in the colonial era. Although Africa looks very promising, considering its endowment of natural resources and high young population index, it has hardly converted these virtues into positive developmental outcomes. It is still the poorest continent, with a high index of hunger, malnutrition, and illiteracy. Unlike other continents, Africa still suffers limitations from terrorism, insurgency, corruption, bad governance, poor leadership, military interventions, violent conflicts, and ethnic and religi............

 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 ............


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