Challenge for Africa

Name: Challenge for Africa
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ISBN: 9780307377401

ISBN-10: 0307377407

ISBN-13: 9780307377401

Edition: 2009

Authors: Wangari Maathai

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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenge facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds. The challenges facing Africa today are severe and wide ranging. Yet what we see of them in the media, more often than not, aretableaux vivantesconnoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai presents a different vision, informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy. She illuminates the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, and…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/7/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: On the Wrong Bus



The Farmer of Yaoundï¿½



A Legacy of Woes



Pillars of Good Governance: The Three-Legged Stool



Aid and the Dependency Syndrome



Deficits: Indebtedness and Unfair Trade



Leadership



Moving the Social Machine



Culture: The Missing Link?



The Crisis of National Identity



Embracing the Micro-nations



Land Ownership: Whose Land Is It, Anyway?



Environment and Development



Saving the Congo Forests



The African Family


Acknowledgments


Notes


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Index