Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, and Pan-Africanism
This book examines the historical antecedents of Pan-Africanism as a driving force of African Unity, carefully studying its major contributors, current institutional status, and potential future growth. It analyzes the facilitative role of emerging techno
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Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, and Pan-Africanism
Thierno Thiam • Gilbert Rochon
Sustainability, Emerging Technologies, and Pan-Africanism
Thierno Thiam Tuskegee University Tuskegee, AL, USA
Gilbert Rochon Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA
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To the citizens of a future united Africa, both continental and in the African Diaspora.
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Preface
In 2009, while at the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory at Purdue University, we embarked on a research project that would leverage our different experiences, backgrounds, expertise, and interests with Africa as the focal point. We knew at the time that we wanted to lay out our vision for the continent and its people both at home and abroad along with its vast potential and limitless possibilities. We also knew that such vision would be rooted in tradition both distant and recent. Distant in the sense that we wanted the foundation of Africa’s new project to be informed by its own traditions of generating and sustaining significant integration frameworks as evidenced by its ancient empires as well as its recent integration frameworks as evidenced by Africa’s attempts to come together as one in the course of its recent past with its experiments with the Organization of African Unity and later the African Union, as well as its various other regional organizations including the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African D
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