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Africa and Globalization

Challenges of Governance and Creativity

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Editors:
  1. Toyin Falola

    1. Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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  2. Kenneth Kalu

    1. Global Management Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  • Offers thoughtful, accessible analysis of how African states have responded to the challenges of globalization
  • Presents policy recommendations for helping African states to play more active and profitable roles in the global economy
  • Includes perspectives from a wide variety of disciplines, including political science, economics, development studies, gender studies, and film studies

Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Africa in a Globalized World

    • Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola
    Pages 1-18
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  3. Africa’s Adaptation to Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Rediscovery of Africa

      • Melike Yilmaz, Fatima Momodu
      Pages 21-38
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    3. Globalization and the Creative Space in Africa: Implications for Governance and Development

      • N. Oluwafemi Mimiko, Funmilola Olorunfemi
      Pages 39-47
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    4. Postcolonial Africa’s Development Trajectories

      • Mesut Yilmaz, Chigozie Enwere
      Pages 49-69
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    5. Collective Social Action: Enlightenment Ethic and the Rise of Modern Individualism

      • Enoch Olujide Gbadegesin
      Pages 71-91
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    6. Same Migrants, Two Business Models: Culture-Centered and Non-Traditional Businesses Established by Ethiopians and Eritreans in Washington DC

      • Mussa Idris
      Pages 93-108
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    7. Making Sense of South Africa’s Soft Power: Projections, Prospects and Possibilities

      • Olusola Ogunnubi, Dorcas Ettang
      Pages 109-140
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  4. Governance and Creativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Developmental Strategies and Cultural Dynamics in Rural Nigeria

      • Harriet Omokiniovo Efanodor
      Pages 143-159
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    3. The Impossible Craft of Nation-Building in Postcolonial Cameroon

      • Ramon A. Fonkoué
      Pages 161-181
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    4. Creativity and New Technologies: Piracy, Politics and the Business of Cultural Production in Nigeria

      • Charles E. Nwadigwe
      Pages 183-204
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    5. Igbo Community Policing and Its Relevance for Contemporary Nigeria

      • Ernest Toochi Aniche
      Pages 205-223
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    6. “Come and Chop”: Representations of the Parliamentarian in Ola Rotimi’s If and Emeka Nwabueze’s A Parliament of Vultures

      • Bosede Funke Afolayan
      Pages 225-235
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    7. Conclusion

      • Kenneth Kalu, Toyin Falola
      Pages 237-242
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  5. Back Matter

    Pages 243-258
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About this book

This book considers the promises and challenges of globalization for Africa. Why have African states been perennially unable to diversify their economies and move beyond export of primary produce, even as Southeast Asia has made a tremendous leap into manufacturing? What institutional impediments are in play in African states? What reforms would mitigate the negative effects of globalization and distribute its benefits more equitably? Covering critical themes such as political leadership, security challenges, the creative sector, and community life, essays in this volume argue that the starting point for Africa’s meaningful engagement with the rest of the world must be to look inward, examine Africa’s institutions, and work towards reforms that promote inclusiveness and stability.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Toyin Falola

  • Global Management Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Kenneth Kalu

About the editors

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.


Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.  


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Africa and Globalization

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges of Governance and Creativity

  • Editors: Toyin Falola, Kenneth Kalu

  • Series Title: African Histories and Modernities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74905-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74904-4Published: 13 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09101-9Published: 12 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74905-1Published: 30 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5773

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 258

  • Topics: African History, African Culture, African Politics, Development Studies

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