The Governance, Security and Development Nexus

1. Specific National Contexts and “the Forgotten Africa”

   1. The Giant of Africa? Explaining the Nigerian Governance, Security, and Development Paradox

      • Bashir Bala, Usman A. Tar

      Pages 315-339

   2. The Conflicts in the DRC: Wider Ramifications for the African Great Lakes Region

      • Joseph Lansana Kormoh

      Pages 341-353

   3. The “Africa Rising” Paradox, Human Trafficking, and Perilous Migration Across the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe

      • Anne Kubai

      Pages 355-370

2. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 371-371

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   2. From the Narrative of “Africa Rising” to “How Africa Can Arise”: The Macro-Economic Imperatives

      • Temitope J. Laniran, Kenneth Omeje

      Pages 373-397

This edited book analyses the changing links between governance, security and development in Africa as they relate to the narrative that contemporary Africa has made remarkable progress in recent years, a phenomenon popularly known as “Africa rising.” The book presents a rigorous evaluation of the Africa rising debate and consequently offers innovative policy guidelines for Africa’s governance and development transformation. 

• Africa rising
• Africa
• development
• governance in Africa
• African security
• development in Africa
• trade and investments in Africa
• scramble for Africa
• development policy

“The volume is ambitious in its attempt to cover the governance, security, and development nexus in breadth and depth. … the volume does offer interesting insights into the governance and development nexus. … the collective volume offers an interesting and compelling survey that will be a valuable contribution to the Africa rising debate.” (Emmanuel Balogun, Yearbook on the African Union, Vol. 2, 2021) This book is a contemporary and sophisticated engagement with the “Africa rising” debate and politics. With 19 carefully curated chapters, this is a theoretically sound and empirically informed project, a compendium for anyone interested in fine-grain scholarly analyses of governance, security and development in Africa.

–Temitope Oriola, Joint Editor-in-Chief of African Security, President of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) and Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada.

 In a moment of political and economic uncertainty throughout the continent, this volume charts out new paths, grounded in interdisciplinary research and rigorous evidence, to futures beyond sanguine declarations of 'Africa Rising' and their celebration of a failed neo-liberal model.

–Adam Branch, Director, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge.

This is a comprehensive, timely, and serious interrogation of Africa rising discourses from a multidisciplinary perspective.  Africa cannot rise if the multi-layered challenges and opportunities of security, governance, and development are not fully grasped.  This anthology is, therefore, a rigorous and empirically grounded contribution to the debate and understanding of Africa’s contemporary condition and prospects.  It is an uncompromising call to jettison destructive economic and governance models and to adopt frameworks that are sustainable, accountable, and truly transformative.

–Professor Ismail Rashid, Department of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

• Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult, Bradford, UK

  Kenneth Omeje

• Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  Kenneth Omeje

Kenneth Omeje is Director, Manifold Crown Research and Training Consult in Bradford, UK; Visiting Professor of Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna. 

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