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South Africa to the Future: Challenges of African Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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Contemporary Africa has little to be proud of. Between starvation, political corruption and economic inefficiency on the one hand and political unrest, political delegitimation and increasing refugization of widespread populations on the other, it is little wonder that many are writing off Africa. Some writers have stated emphatically that Africa is “Falling Off the Map.” African problems are many; African solutions seem to be few and far between. In a world where power is being redefined, where the New World Order presents new realities of geopolitic, it is no longer sufficient for Third World nations to play one super-power off against another. Africa is lost.
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Nikongo Ba’Nikongo is professor of African American Studies at Howard University, Washington, D. C.
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