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African Renaissance
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| African Renaissance Volume 7 Number 2, 2010 (lead theme: Poverty in Africa) |
| In Volume 7 Number 1, of the journal, we discussed US-Africa relations under Barrack Obama. We posed and sought answers to the question of whether there has been any fundamental change in US policy towards Africa under Obama’s presidency.
In this issue we focus on poverty in Africa, its ramifications and the various remedial measures in the continent. In Ghana............ |
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| African Renaissance Volume 7, Number 1, 2010 (US-Africa Relations Under Obama) |
| In Volume 6 Numbers 3 & 4 of the journal, we looked at the Yaradua regime, which came into power in Nigeria in May 2007. We discussed the election that brought the regime to power, Yaradua’s 7-point Agenda as well as citizen diplomacy and political legitimacy in the country since 2007.
In this issue, we focus on US-Africa relations under Barrack Oba............ |
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| Africa and the Current Global Financial Crisis (AR Vol 6 No 2, 2009) |
| In the last edition of the journal, we examined the recently concluded Ghanaian presidential elections, noting that the 2008 elections tested the institutional character of the electoral process in Ghana to its limit. We noted that while Ghana deserved every commendation for yet another successful democratic power transfer, the rave reviews of the elections, were rath............ |
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| The 2008 Presidential elections in Ghana (African Renaissance Vol 6 No.1 2009) |
| In volume 5, No.3 & 4 2008 edition of the journal, we dealt with the issue of Electoral Violence and Post-Electoral Arrangements in Africa, noting that the end of the Cold War and big power rivalries in the late 1980s coincided with and/or contributed to the restoration or establishment of multiparty systems in most of Africa in what has been termed the &lsqu............ |
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| Electoral Violence and Post-Electoral Arrangements in Africa (AR vol 5 Nos 3&4) |
| Introduction:
Electoral Violence and Post-Electoral Arrangements in Africa
Issaka K. Souaré (Guest Editor)
Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria
Guest Editor
The end of the Cold War and big power rivalries in the late 1980s coincided with and/or contributed to the restoration or establishment of multiparty systems in most of Africa in what has............ |
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| Contending images of Africa (African Renaissance Vol 5 No 2 2008) |
| Contending images of Africa
In the last edition of the journal issue, we focused on the quality of leadership in the continent, looking at the challenges, triumphs and emerging trends in the continent. In this issue we look at the contending images of Africa, in the press and in the popular imaginations.
Marcel Kitissou discusses a number of ............ |
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| Leadership in Africa: Trends, Triumphs and Challenges ((Guest Editor: Gerrie Swart) |
| From the Editor
Leadership in Africa: Trends, Triumphs and Challenges
Guest Editor: Gerrie Swart
(Gerrie Swart, a lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa, (UNISA) is the Guest Editor of this volume. Gerrie, who has been a frequent contributor to the journal in the last year and half, solicited an............ |
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| African Renaissance Vol 4 Nos 3&4: Consolidating the Democracy Project in Africa: Cases from South Africa, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia |
| In Volume 4 No 2 2007 edition of the journal, we focused on the Democratic Republic of Congo, often referred to as the DRC, and formerly known variously as the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, The Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa and Zaire. The DRC is a country rent by ethnic strife and civil war since 1994, culminating in the First Congo War t............ |
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| The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? |
| In the last issue of the journal (Volume 4, No1, 1st Quarter 2007), we focused on the Horn of Africa. We looked at the region, the problems of conflicts, dictatorships, wars, weapon proliferation, identity, and development trajectory. We asked some key questions: What political agendas, if any, do the competing historical narratives of ethnic identities ser............ |
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