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Wake up Africa: The Continent Will Change When the Notion of Her Citizens Change By Peter Ojiaku
Independently published
This mindset-challenging book tells the story of how Africa should be, and not what it is. Africa is blessed with wealth ranging from oil and mineral resources to human resources, yet she remains in the dark ages. Civilization started from Africa, but today Africa is lagging behind because Africans have not fully liberated their minds from the shackles of colonialism.
The author, a leader and life coach, with this book, seeks to address the ills of Africa in government, parenting and the society. He seeks to urge Africans to reach a realization of their identity and claim their rightful place as leaders. Wake up Africa is garnished with popular sayings from great African philosophers like Nelson Mandela, in a bid to spur the sleeping giant into wakefulness. It is a page turner and incites the mind of its readers to soul searching and discovering their potentials.
Financing Sustainable Development in Africa
By Uchenna R. Efobi and Simplice Asongu
Palgrave Macmillan
The book provides a critical evaluation of financing options for sustainable development in Africa. While sustainability has long been the watchword for development programs, and while many African countries have taken initiatives to develop integrated frameworks that tackle developmental challenges, including poverty, education and health, financing has remained a challenge. In this book, an expert team of chapter authors examines new financing options while also exploring how traditional financing means, such as foreign aid and foreign direct investment, can be more effective for sustainability. The authors also discuss how African nations can build productive capacity.
Foreign Aid and the Future of Africa
By Kenneth Kalu
Palgrave Macmillan
During the past five decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has received more foreign aid than any other region of the world, and yet poverty remains endemic throughout the region. As Kenneth Kalu argues, this does not mean that foreign aid has failed; rather, it means that foreign aid in its current form does not have the capacity to procure development or eradicate poverty. This is because since colonialism, the economic and political institutions continue to block a majority of citizens from meaningful participation in the economy. Drawing upon case studies of Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, this book makes the case for redesigning development assistance in order to strike at the root of poverty.