Can Africa Claim The 21st Century

Africa in the 21st Century offers a comprehensive review of development prospects in each of the major development sectors.

"Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? is a product of the growing collaboration among some of the main institutions involved in African development: the African Development Bank, African Economic Research Consortium, Global Coalition for Africa, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and World Bank. More than 50 scholars, policymakers, and development practitioners - predominantly African - appraised the regions' development at the start of the new century and articulated a road map for the future. The report provides a broad business plan that countries can adapt - while also arguing for better, more effective partnerships between Africa and its development partners." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

It is time to reexamine and reimagine the pressures on and potential for the Africa region to develop an inclusive growth model for this new era. This report fleshes out the policy instruments that can help countries in the region on a sustainable development path.

Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. In original essays, the authors raise the level of discourse around the questions of integration, pluralism, families, a federative state, and good governance. Each writer sees in the continent the potential for greatness and therefore articulates a theoretical and philosophical approach to Africa that constructs a victorious consciousness from hard concrete facts. This book will interest students and scholars of the history and politics of Africa as well as professional Africanists, Africologists, and international studies scholars who are inclined toward Africa.