Failure of Leadership in Africa''s Development

Informationen zum Autor Ike Okonta was, until recently, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford. Currently, he is Coordinating Fellow of the New Centre for Social Research, Abuja, Nigeria. He is author of Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil (2003) Paperback; When Citizens Revolt: Nigerian Elites, Big Oil and the Ogoni Struggle for Self-Determination (2008); Biafran Ghosts: The Massob Ethnic Militia and Nigeria's Democratisation Process (2012); The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development (2020) Klappentext This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa's ruling classes to scientific and technological progress. Zusammenfassung This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa’s ruling classes to scientific and technological progress. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Africa's Underdevelopment: Nagging QuestionsChapter 2: A Crippled and Comatose GiantChapter 3: The Cause of Africa's Underdevelopment: Conflicting TheoriesChapter 4: Africa's Historical Indifference to Technological ProgressChapter 5: Monarchs of "The Encounter" and their Feeble Responses to Europe's Superior TechnologyChapter 6: A Blueprint for Africa's DevelopmentChapter 7: The Poverty of Contemporary African Political Thought

Product details

• Authors: Ike Okonta, Okonta Ike
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781793613257
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-325-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Afrika, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, African socialism, Africa's poverty, Africa's ruling classes, Africa's underdevelopment, benign geography, black nationalism, colonialism, cultural receptivity, dependency theory, geographical explana, Politics & government, Politics and government, African History