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The Governance, Security and Development Nexus
Kenneth Omeje Editor
The Governance, Security and Development Nexus Africa Rising
Editor Kenneth Omeje Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult Bradford, UK Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Preface
This book explores the nexus between governance, security and development in Africa as it relates to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress over the past one and half decades, a phenomenon captured in influential sections of international media and academic and policy discourses as “Africa rising.” The book investigates and interrogates the discursive assumptions and empirical indicators of the Africa rising narratives. The Africa rising debate is a controversial discourse postulating that contemporary Africa has made a substantial leap from the longstanding Valhalla of underdevelopment and its negative governance and security correlates to the trajectory of sustainable progress. Is continental Africa finally witnessing what the famous American post-war economist W. W. Rostow called the “preconditions for take-off” or probably his actual “take off of self-sustaining economic growth?” In what specific empirical forms and ways have Africa recorded the highly publicised rising progress or take-off? What are the local, regional and international factors that have enabled Africa to rise and to what extent are African
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