Adeniyi Semiu Basiru (Lagos): Globalisation and the State: Implications for the State of Human Rights in Africa. “Protest is always hopeful”: Kim Yi Dionne, Adam Branch and Zachariah Mampilly examine the third wave of popular protest in Africa. From The Economist, the young continent: With fertility rates falling more slowly than anywhere else, Africa faces a population explosion. For a growing Africa, hope mingles with fear of the future: Will a baby boom pull the world’s poorest continent into the center of global affairs? Ernesto Zedillo on Africa at a fork in the road: Taking off or disappointment once again? Oscar Mateos (Ramon Llull): From “Tragedy” to “Miracle”? Africa in the New Multipolar Context.
Jimoh Ezekiel Oseni (OOU) and Elizabeth Oseni (Babcock): Theoretization of Africapitalism Concept. Africa is often seen as an appendage of the Western capitalists in terms of development experience — why is it largely influenced by rich dominant families, cartels, nations and regions? Why Africa isn’t rising: James Gibney reviews The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth by Tom Burgis. Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou on the long-run effects of the “Scramble for Africa”. Pierre Englebert on the “real” map of Africa: Redrawing colonial borders.
