AFRICA and AFRICANS face a paradox that is difficult to accept. The continent is one of the world’s richest in the most valuable natural resources; yet African populations are among the poorest and most in need on the planet. Certainly, slavery and colonization—of which Africa was the primary victim in the past—as well as the harmful consequences of Western imperialism that it still suffers today, with policies of subjugation such as “France-Africa,” constitute major obstacles to the modernization and emergence of this continent. However, Africa can and must develop, if and only if the Africans of today and tomorrow decide to do so. Educated like their Western counterparts in the most prestigious schools, African elites must assume their responsibilities in order to better guide their compatriots along the paths of peace and development. Africa can and must develop; it simply needs to be well-managed and very well-led!
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
What lies ahead for Africa? Is there any reason to hope that tomorrow will be better than today? It is easy to think that this troubled continent faces a troubled future. After all, Africa has long battled enormous problems for...
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining...
This book is a spiritual message from Africa. In plain language the message is that America’s foreign policy for Africa should be centred on accelerated political unification of the continent through the current infantile African Union (AU).