African Renaissance in the Millennium

Emmanuel Ike Udogu is professor of political science at Appalachian State University.

• Chapter 1 General IntroductionChapter 2 From Past to Present: A Concise Overview of Political and Economic DevelopmentChapter 3 Transition to and Consolidation of Democracy: Which Way Forward?Chapter 4 Ethnic Conflict and Politics: The Economic and Social Implications for Africa's RebirthChapter 5 Underdevelopment and the Immigration of African Intelligentsia: What is to be done?Chapter 6 Conclusion: The State, Civil Society and the Development EnterpriseChapter 7 Appendix A: The African Renaissance, South Africa and the World. South Africa Deputy President Thabo Mbeki Speaks at the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, April 9, 1998.Chapter 8 Appendix B: USA-African Dialogue Series, Nigeria: Corruption and Democracy Remarks made at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Quarterly Seminar/Colloquium, University of Ibadan, on January 31, 2007. Delivered by Nuhu Ribadu, Executive Chairm

Since independence, African countries have struggled to adopt political and economic systems that would enhance peaceful coexistence of population groups and promote genuine development. In African Renaissance in the New Millennium: The Political, Social and Economic Discourses on the Way Forward, E. Ike Udogu, a veteran student of African studies, provides a rigorous, multidisciplinary analysis of the failure of the postcolonial state in Africa to guarantee peaceful coexistence and enhance genuine economic development. The analysis is refreshing, highly compelling, informative, and provides very useful suggestions for moving the continent forward in the twenty-first century.