Remapping Africa in the global space : propositions for change / edited by Edward Shizha

Published:: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : Boston : Sense Publishers, [2014]
Copyright Date:: ©2014
Physical Description:: xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Shizha, Edward

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Contents:

Introduction: Africa in the global space / Edward Shizha -- Section I: Nation-state, immigration and the diaspora -- The African State: Can the future be stable? / Ian S. Spears -- Trials of national cohesion: Root cuases of violence in Cote d'Ivoire / Siendou Konate -- Working with African communites in the diaspora through a University-community framework: a community development model / Ginette Lafreniere and Lamine Diallo -- Globalisation, globalised labour markets: Migration and translocations in sub-Saharan Africa / Edward Shizha -- Section II: Challenges and propositions to development -- Education of development: An Africanish postcolonial perspective / Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi -- Globalisation, foreign aid and development in sub-saharan Africa: Challenges, opportunites and policy options / Grima Defere Tegegn -- Climate change and environmental challenges in Sourthern Africa development community (SADC): Responses in the age of Globalisation / Charles Chikunda and Calebe Mandikonza -- Health as an agent for Africa's development: from colonialism architectures in renaissance / Palesa R. Sekhejane and Thabang S. Dladla -- Section III: Educational propositions in the global space -- Indigenous knowledge and science education and Sourth Africa: What messages form the curriculum? / Audrey Msimanga and Edward Shizha -- Africanisation of epistemology in the 21st century University of Africa / Amas aPhilip Ndofirepi -- Globalisation and the academy: The African University within the new world order - inclusion or relegation? / Clemente K. Abrokwaa -- Legal frameworks on educational provisons for pregant and parenting teenagers: Implications on the MDG targets of gender equity in education for sub-saharan Africa / Tawanda Runhare and Munyaradzi Hwami.

Summary:

What are the benefits and risks for Africa's participation in the globalisation nexus? This book is a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa's image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa's reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa's internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both 'outsider' and 'insider' perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide 'standard' paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa's current misperceptions and myths about the African 'crisis' and 'failure' status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa.--Provided by publisher

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ISBN:

9789462098343 (paperback)
9462098344 (paperback)
9789462098350 (hardback)
9462098352 (hardback)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2016

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment

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