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Alternative Futures for Africa

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Westview Special Studies on Africa

Alternative Futures for Africa

edited by Timothy M. Shaw

This comprehensive, critical examination of Africas futurewritten by a diverse group of Africans and Africanistsraises many questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African continent. Eclectic in range and method, but cohesive in concern, the book identifies and analyzes alternative probabilities in the political, economic, and social spheres and on the national, regional, and international levels. Many of the contributors point toward an unpromising future for Africa unless its development strategy is changed and its inheritance of dependence on the world system overcome.

Timothy M. Shaw, associate professor of political science at Dalhousie University, has taught at the University of Ife (Nigeria), the University of Zambia, Makerere University (Uganda), and Carleton University, Ottawa. He is coauthor of Zambias Foreign Policy: Studies in Diplomacy and Dependence (Westview, 1979) and coeditor of and contributor to Cooperation and Conflict in Southern Africa, Conflict and Change in Southern Africa, and Politics of Africa. He has also published numerous articles on African foreign and development policies.

Source: Timothy M. Shaw and Kenneth A. Heard, eds., The Politics of Africa: Dependence and Development (New York: Africana, 1979), p. 382.

First published 1982 by Westview Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Main entry under title:

Alternative futures for Africa.

(Westview special studies on Africa)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. AfricaEconomic conditions1945- Addresses, essays, lectures.
2. AfricaEconomic integrationAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. AfricaPolitics and
government1960- Addr, essays, lectures. 4. AfricaSocial conditions1945
Addresses, essays, lectures.

I. Shaw, Timothy M. II. Series.

HC80.A72 330.960328 81-11469

ISBN 0-89158-769-1 AACR2

ISBN 0-86531-247-8 (pbk.)

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01892-4 (hbk)

To know the future we must look into the past and the present.

A.M. Babu, Postscript to Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1972), p. 316.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. [There is always something new out of Africa.]

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Bk. 8.

Hes a fine example of the past intruding on the present, to ruin everybodys future.

Eric Knight, Sam Small Flies Again: The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman (New York: Harper, 1942).

Africa has no future.

V. S. Naipaul, New York Times Book Review, 15 May 1979, p. 36.

Contents

, Timothy M. Shaw

, Timothy M. Shaw

, Raymond L. Hall

, Timothy M. Shaw and Don Munton

, Timothy M. Shaw and Paul Goulding

, J. Isawa Elaigwu

, John P. Renninger

, Barry B. Hughes and Patricia A. Strauch

, Florizelle B. Liser

, Ali A. Mazrui

I. William Zartman

, Adebayo Adedeji

1. ii
2. iii
3. iv
4. vii

Guide

Contemporary African State System

The preparation of this collection of material was stimulated by two related interests, both of which in some sense involve a political decision. First, these chapters were solicited and assembled because of a concern about the unsatisfactory state of the art of futures studies as practiced in and related to Africa. It is perhaps symptomatic of global inequality and dependence that those regions that most need information and consideration tend to get the least; Africa needs the best possible futures studies to begin to master its own destiny. Second, these chapters were prepared and collected so that the people of Africa could begin to recognize and deal with the implications of the alternative projections and scenarios. Futures studies, no matter how tentative and unreliable, do inform people of the choices between policy options and provide some indication of the likely effects of such decisions.

In the case of Africa, the choice is an increasingly stark one between continued incorporation in the world system and disengagement from it, that is, between the perpetuation of outward-looking growth and the adoption of some form of self-reliant strategy for development. The repercussions of this choice will affect national planning, regional integration, continental unity and global order at least into the twenty-first century. Given the fatefulness of this choice for peoples, regimes, and statesin Africa and elsewherethe more informed the decision makers are, the better.

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