Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa. Este artículo no está disponible.Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa

Governance, security, and development are three critical components of a dialectical nexus that is both dominant and determinant for any objective and fruitful quest for the understanding of the trajectory of a country, a region or, in the case of Africa, a continent from a colonial past to a neocolonial and meta-colonial present, and toward a future of strategic optimal independence and self-reliance. That colonial past and the ensuing neocolonial and meta-colonial present have made these critical components and the dialectical nexus that they form particularly challenging for the African continent. For this reason, Issues of Governance, Security and Development in Contemporary Africa offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the challenges that contemporary Africa faces within these critical areas, as well as the resources and prospects that the continent possesses and can leverage to overcome the said challenges. Using case studies involving a range of countries across the continent, Mohamed Saliou Camara, Alem Hailu, and Sabella O. Abidde argue that Africa needs to decolonize the terms of reference that guide its nation-building, statecraft, and national development agenda in ways that will facilitate the establishment of viable systems of governance and security, and the promotion of genuine development.

Mohamed Saliou Camara is a Professor of History, Philosophy, and Journalism at Howard University, with an MA and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University obtained on a Fulbright scholarship. He is the author of seven books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters; the head editor of one manograph and co-editor of another; the editor of two upcoming books, the Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Journal of African Studies (HUJAS), and the winner of the 2023 Grand Prix de la Francophonie. In Guinea, Camara served as Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Associate Chair of the Philosophy Department, President of the University of Conakry Press, Journalists at the National Radio and Television Network (RTG), and speech writer for the Press Bureau of the Presidency of the Republic of Guinea.

Alem Hailu is associate professor of African studies at Howard University.

Sabella O. Abidde is professor of political science and member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University.

Dr. Jackson A. Aluede is a lecturer at the Department of History & International Studies, Anchor University, Lagos (Nigeria). His research areas cover border and borderlands studies, African history, foreign policy, and global governance, as well as regional integration and regionalism. He is a recipient of the prestigious REGIONS2050 Fellowship of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Aluede has published extensively in local and foreign journals and books.

Stephen M. Magu is assistant professor of political science at Hampton University.