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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 political and economic conditions, implications and factors derived from the vagaries of migration and climate change, it is crucial to be cognizant with how these variables impact regional integration initiatives. The contributors discuss the debates on Pan-Africanism and linking it with ongoing discourses and policies on regional integration in Africa. Other aspects of the book contain some of the most important topic issues such as migration, border management and the sustainable development goals. This content offers readers fresh and innovative perspectives on various aspects of sustainable development and regional growth in Africa.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Pan-Africanism and Regionalism in Africa: The Journey So Far.- 3. Regional Cooperation for Development: The African Union Experience.- 4. The African Union and the International Criminal Court: An Analysis of Al-Bashir's International Arrest Warrant.- 5. Capacity Imperatives for the Realization of the African Continental Free Trade Area: Issues and Policy Options.- 6. Regional Integration and the Political Economy of Morocco's Desire for Membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).- 7. The Red Herring of Identity in Africa: Using Identity Conflicts to Capture State Power and Inculcate Economic Avarice in the Central African Republic.- 8. Mediatizing and Gendering Pan-Africanism for 'Glocal Impacts'.- 9. The Politics of Paternalism and Implications of Global Governance on Africa: A Critique of the Sustainable Development Goals.- 10. The Construction of African Immigrants in Contemporary South Africa and Social Cohesion: Reflections on theRoles of the Media.- 11. On Globalisation, a World Class City, Poverty and Security in Johannesburg Inner City.- 12. The State Bureaucracies and Development in Africa: Interrogating the Link.- 13. Bureaucracy and Crisis of Development in Prismaric Post-Colonial African States: An Ethical Review.- 14. Building Capacities for Border Administrators along Nigeria's International Boundaries.- 15. Explaining Nigeria's Diaspora Communities' Transmogrification: From State Partners to Challengers.- 16. Diaspora Remittances and Sustainable Development in Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria.- 17. International Law and Violence against Women.
About the author
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Associate Professor at Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa.
