Political Leadership and the Quest for Unity and Development in Africa

ISBN-13: 9783639146929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 88 str.

Thierno Thiam

Opis

Africas history is not the stuff of which fairytales are made of. Slavery, colonialism, andneocolonialism left a bitter legacy in Africa. Butit is also true that Africa was failed by herleadership. Today, the challenge for Africasleadership is to escape from the grips of the pastand create the conditions that will allow her peoplea life of dignity. And there has never been a betteropportunity to do so. These are the challenges ofmodern days. These are the defining challenges ofpolitical leadership. The battle for political andeconomic emancipation could only be won with a mindresolutely turned towards the future. Thus, a newcontract is needed between the people and theleadership in Africa.When African leaders met at Kananaski in June 2002and at Durban in July of the same year to create theAfrican Union, this is what they were signing: apledge to the people of Africa to promote soundeconomic management, democracy, peace, security anddevelopment within the framework of a united Africa.At the end of the day, this exciting road to unityand development promises to be not an easy one. Morethan anything else, it promises to be a test ofleadership.

O autorze

Dr. Thierno Thiam, a citizen of Senegal (West Africa), is a
Research Fellow at the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory at Purdue
University (USA). Thierno Thiam defended his PhD thesis in
Political Science on November 6th, 2008 on The Paradigmatic Logic
of the Emergence of International and Security Communities in Africa.