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At the 1884-1885 Conference of Berlin, a collection of states, mostly European, established the rules for the partition of Africa. The consequences of their decision had immense historical and structural implications apparent in the domestic and international behavior of the continent today. The "Curse," as the conference came to be called, is the grounding theme of Adekeye Adebajo's trenchant study, though his guiding focus is the development of Africa after the Cold War.
Adebajo opens with Africa's quest for security, featuring essays on the continent's political institutions, such as the African Union and subregional bodies. He follows with chapters on the United Nations and its operations in Africa, particularly its political, peacekeeping, and socioeconomic missions. Adebajo includes two rare profiles of the secretary generals who worked with the UN from 1992 to 2006: Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Ghana's Kofi Annan. Africa's pursuit of representative leadership informs the next section, with essays examining the hegemonic influence of South Africa, Nigeria, China, France, and the United States. Concluding chapters discuss Africa's search for unity, exploring the direct and indirect impact of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Kwame Nkrumah, Cecil Rhodes, Barack Obama, and Mahatma Gandhi. Adebajo also conducts a comparative assessment of the African and European Unions.
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Adekeye Adebajo is executive director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa. A former Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, he has served as director of the Africa program of the New York-based International Peace Academy and has accompanied UN missions to South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq. He is the author of Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia's Civil War and coeditor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century; West Africa's Security Challenges; A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations; South Africa in Africa; and From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations.
A deeply informed, insightful, at times brilliant book.
(Padraig Carmody Journal of Modern African Studies 1900-01-00)[An] important book.
(Garth Le Pere Africa Review of Books 1900-01-00)Overall, this volume provides a fascinating insight into contemporary issues affecting African international relations, and the security--hegemony--unity framework used has the potential to become a powerful tool for analysis.
(Millennium)a good read -- especially for those seeking an understanding of historical and contemporary African issues.
(Tendayi Sithole Politeia 1900-01-00)...concise and entertaining...
(Christopher McMichael New Agenda 1900-01-00)a rich account of the main actors and institutions that shape diplomacy, security, and development in postapartheid Africa.
(Jerry Lavery Comparative Political Studies 1900-01-00)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherC Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1849040958
- ISBN 13 9781849040952
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages448
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