Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa
This edited volume addresses the accomplishments, prospects and challenges of regional integration processes on the African continent. Since regional integration is a process that ebbs and flows according to a wide range of variables such as changing poli
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Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Editor
Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa
Editor Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute University of South Africa Pretoria, South Africa Visiting Scholar, Institute of African Studies Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Preface
This book addresses the interrelated issues of Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa. Although Pan Africanism as an ideological force suffered some retreat with the end of official colonialism in Africa, there have been ebbs and flows of its currents in various forms over the past two decades. The Pan African Agenda that underpinned several initiatives, such as the New Partnership for African Development in 2001 in the late 1990s and early 2000s lost its team when the leaders of that era left the political stage in their respective countries. What emerged was the ascendance of leaders who are too pre-occupied with their domestic challenges to pursue any Pan African ideal. The exception to this was the emergence of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who worked assiduously towards the reform of the African Union. Since the change in the nomenclature from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union in 2002, the organization has worked towards the realization of the regional integration agenda of the
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