Africa: Dawn of a New Era
Title | Africa: Dawn of a New Era PDF eBook |
Author | Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | New Africa Press |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9987160484 |
The author looks at some of the major events which took place in Africa in the early years of independence including challenges to statehood and nationhood which threatened the existence of some countries. He also looks at the struggle for independence in some of the countries which were among the last to win their freedom, and at some of the causes of conflict in a number of countries across the continent which can be traced to the wrong foundation laid in the sixties for the new African nations. Subjects covered include the Nigerian civil war which almost destroyed the Nigerian federation when the Eastern Region seceded in 1967 and established the independent Republic of Biafra, and which still haunts Nigeria today.
Africa in Transition: Witness to Change
Title | Africa in Transition: Witness to Change PDF eBook |
Author | Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | Intercontinental Books |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2018-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9987160085 |
Godfrey Mwakikagile looks at the major changes Africa has gone through since the end of colonial rule including some of the events he witnessed in his home country Tanganyika – later Tanzania – since the late 1950s, the dawn of a new era when Africa was headed towards independence. One of the fundamental changes he looks at took place in the 1990s when most countries across the continent gradually moved from authoritarian rule to democracy, although he contends that the gains made during that transitional period have not been consolidated and sustained through the years. The majority of Africans still live under one form of authoritarian rule or another including outright dictatorship.
My Life as an African
Title | My Life as an African PDF eBook |
Author | Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | New Africa Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9987160050 |
This is an autobiographical work covering a wide range of subjects including a number of major events relevant to Africa and the African diaspora.
Rethinking the Role of African National Courts in Arbitration
Title | Rethinking the Role of African National Courts in Arbitration PDF eBook |
Author | Emilia Onyema |
Publisher | Kluwer Law International B.V. |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2018-06-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9041190430 |
With the increase in commercial transactions within the fifty-four independent African states and at the international level, it has become apparent that most of the legal framework for arbitration across the continent require reform. Accordingly, in recent years, as this first in-depth treatment of arbitration in Africa shows, jurisprudence from national courts of various African jurisdictions demonstrates that the courts are becoming more pro-arbitration and judges increasingly better understand that their role is to support or complement the arbitral process. This book documents the second SOAS Arbitration in Africa conference held in Lagos in June 2016. In thirteen lucid chapters, African practitioners and academics and European specialists in African legal and arbitral systems provide a remarkably thorough overview of the relation of courts and arbitration in the continent. Among the matters that arise for discussion are the: • disposition of courts in Africa towards arbitration, whether supportive or interventionist; • involvement of courts in the arbitral process before, during, and after an award has been rendered; • publication and access to arbitration-related decisions from African courts; • enforcement of annulled awards in African states under the New York Convention; • prospects for the establishment of a pan-African investment court; and • how foreign courts (particularly in the United States, France, and Switzerland) perceive African arbitration. Because of the wide range of developmental stages among Africa’s numerous court and legal systems, Part I of the book explores generic issues relevant to courts and arbitration, followed by detailed descriptions, including court decisions, of the situation in eight specific jurisdictions – Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, Mauritius, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, and Kenya. The authors of these latter chapters are legal practitioners and academics from each of these countries. Throughout this book, policy recommendations for improving access to court decisions and laws in African states are brought to the fore. In its expertise-based advocacy for a mutually harmonious and supportive co-existence for arbitration and litigation in the context of the complexities and peculiarities of African states – and its confrontation of the predominantly negative perception that often leads to ‘arbitration flight’ from the continent – this book helps companies, investors, and their advisors to base their decisions on facts and not perceptions. It will be of great value to practising lawyers in arbitration as counsel or arbitrators, companies doing transnational business, global law firms, government officials, and academics in the field.
The African Renaissance
Title | The African Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Washington A. Jalango Okumu |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781592210138 |
An intellectual tour de force, this bold, imaginative and provocative analysis of Africa's striving for political stability and economic growth demonstrates the potential for an African Renaissance today. One of Africa's leading intellectuals, Okumu analyses new initiatives such as NEPAD and discusses their potential role in Africa's economic welfare and future, while putting forward his own practical, policy oriented programme for an African Renaissance.
Compendium of Key Documents Relating to Peace and Security in Africa
Title | Compendium of Key Documents Relating to Peace and Security in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Kathina Juma |
Publisher | PULP |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 0958509735 |
This Compendium contains key official Documents on peace and security in Africa covering period between 1963 and the end of 2005.
International Relations Scholarship Around the World
Title | International Relations Scholarship Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Arlene B. Tickner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 2009-06-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135981078 |
This book provides the most comprehensive global analysis of international relations ever published, assessing the state of the discipline in different corners of the world, through insights derived from sociology of science and postcolonial theory.