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It is 127 years since the Scramble for Africa divided up the continent, imposing borders that have led to conflict rather than peace and stability. It is 100 years since the African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the first African liberation movement with pan-African roots. It is nearly 50 years since the Organization of African Unity (OAU) was founded in May 1963 and ten years since the African Union (AU) was born with a vision that seeks ëthe actualisation of human dignity, development and prosperity for the entire African people ... anchored on a vision of an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa Ö driven and managed by its own citizens Ö and representing a dynamic force in the international arenaí. The achievement of the AU vision is predicated on colonialism being dead. However, it has actually been replaced by neocolonialism, which requires extra vigilance from Africa and its diaspora in order for the unity and renaissance dreamed of to become a reality. The chapters in Africana World: From Fragmentation to Unity and Renaissance address colonial and postcolonial African realities with a view to present a holistic and transcontinental appraisal of questions, issues and challenges that confront the continent. Contributors are drawn from different parts of the world ñ Africa, Europe and the Americas ñ and it is this eclectic range of scholarly views that lends a rich historicity to the meaning of Africanity. The book contains multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagements with Africaís rich cultural heritage, its lingering contemporary challenges, its multifaceted systems of knowledge and its future in the exciting context of the twenty-first century. Africana World: From Fragmentation to Unity and Renaissance is put together in order to help develop the study and knowledge of African liberation across the continent and the diaspora. This first volume launches a new book series, following the Scramble for Africa conferences held every May to commemorate the founding of the OAU, which will be published annually to support the scholarly study of African unity and renaissance in order to replace the lingering imagery of colonialism in Africa with a fully liberated African consciousness.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. i-iii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acronyms
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction: African Unity: If Not Now, When?
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. Part I - Postcolonial Nation-Building Processes
  1. Part II - Governance, Democracy and Development
  1. Chapter 2 - The Flip Sides of Corruption: A Challenge to Developing Countries
  2. pp. 51-64
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  1. Chapter 3 - Transitions of a Political Culture
  2. pp. 65-96
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  1. Chapter 4 - Locating the Image of Postcolonial sub-Saharan African State Fragility in the Mirror of Colonialism
  2. pp. 97-118
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  1. Part III - The New Scramble for Africa: Brazil, Russia, India and China
  1. Chapter 5 - China’s Links with Africa and Implications for Development and Democratic Governance: A Study of Selected African Countries
  2. pp. 121-142
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  1. Chapter 6 - Modernity, Globalisation and Complexity: The Legacy and Future of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
  2. pp. 143-172
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  1. Chapter 7 - SINO-led Development in Lesotho: Power Cruise or Sustainable Development?
  2. pp. 173-194
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  1. Chapter 8 - The European Union’s Economic Partnership Agreements with Africa and the Scramble for the African Market
  2. pp. 195-206
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  1. Chapter 9 - From Hegemony to Cooperation: A Comparative Analysis of India and China in Africa
  2. pp. 207-216
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  1. Chapter 10 - Economic Integration in Africa: The Systems of Innovation Approach
  2. pp. 217-236
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  1. Part IV - Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  1. Chapter 11 - Ambivalences of Traditional Institutions in Southern Africa
  2. pp. 239-262
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  1. Chapter 12 - Utilising Indigenous Knowledge to Enhance Food Security: Tapping Zimbabwean Experiences
  2. pp. 263-274
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  1. Chapter 13 - Blessed be the Tie that Binds: African Diaspora Christian Movements and African Unity
  2. pp. 275-286
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  1. Part V - Twenty-first Century Pan-Africanism
  1. Chapter 14 - Unscrambling Africa’s Future: The Role of African Youth in Pan-AfricanEmpowerment
  2. pp. 289-310
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  1. Chapter 15 - Beyond the Berlin Conference: The Renaissance of Twenty-first Century Pan-Africanism – Setting Standards to Measure its Effectiveness
  2. pp. 311-328
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  1. Chapter 16 - Language in the Recovery of Ourselves: The Medew Netjer (Hieroglyphics) in the Construction of Pan-Afrikan Unity
  2. pp. 329-348
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  1. Conclusion
  2. pp. 349-358
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  1. Appendix
  2. p. 359
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  1. Back cover
  2. p. 380
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