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Imagining the United States of Africa

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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.
Chapter 1: The Issue of Nationalism and Political Integration in Africa's Unification Project: An Overview, E. Ike Udogu Chapter 2: The Challenge of Corruption Control in Africa, John Mukum Mbaku, Esq. Chapter 3: Reflection on Capitalism and Liberal Globalization: Lessons for a Proposed Union Government, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo Chapter 4: Political Ethnicity and Conflict Management in an Integrated Continent, E. Ike Udogu Chapter 5: ICT Penetration and Functions of Government and Society in Fostering Regional Power Hubs Critical for Sustaining Development in Africa, Kwesi A. Tandoh Chapter 6: Social Democracy and Its Efficacy in a United Africa, George Klay Kieh, Jr.
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