{"product_id":"9781498507752","title":"Imagining the United States of Africa : Discourses on the Way Forward","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa's adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48783583215851,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":238.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781498507752-1.jpg?v=1781684154","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781498507752","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}