| Contents |
Africa at the crossroads / John Mukum Mbaku, Suresh Chandra Saxena -- Africa at the crossroads of globalization / Emmanuel Nnadozie -- Globalization and popular disenchantment in Africa / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- A tale of three images: globalization, marginalization, and the sovereignty of the African nation-state / Paul L. Ehioze Idahosa -- Regionalism and regional cooperation in Africa: new century challenges and prospects / Paul-Henri Bischoff -- The new East African community: a defense and security organ as the missing link / P. Godfrey Okoth -- The African union: Africa's giant step toward continental unity / Suresh Chandra Saxena -- Fighting poverty and deprivation in Africa: the continuing struggle / John Mukum Mbaku -- Internet connectivity and development in AFrica: look before you "leapfrog" / Lyombe S. Eko -- Decentralization and privitization of infrastructure / Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Wilson S.K. Wasike -- Beyond rhetoric: peacekeeping in Africa in the new millennium / Korwa G. Adar -- Cultural diversity, societal conflict, and sustainable peace in Africa: consociational democracy revisited / Ufo Okeke Uzodike -- State repair and democratic development in Africa / 'Kunle Amuwo -- Ethnicity, agonism of difference, and national imagining in postcolonial Africa / Nantang Jua -- The struggle for stability in Nigeria's contemporary politics (1990-1999) and the lessons for the fourth republic / E. Ike Udogu -- Imperialism and militarism in AFrica: the political economy of French arms sales and military interventions, 1960-1980 / Immanuel Tatah Mentan. |
