The New Scramble for Africa by Guy Arnold, North-South Books, 2009. Price £15.00
Reviewed by Desmond Davies, Africa Editor, North-South magazine, http://www.northsouthmag.com/ The African continent continues to baffle the rest of the world. It is generally portrayed as the poorest, the most disorganised and the most conflict-ridden. But the rest of the world does not want to leave Africa alone to mend its…
Morocco in the 21st Century by Guy Arnold, North-South Books,2009.Price £15.00(paperback) or £20.00(hardback)
http://www.northsouthmag.com/ Since the beginning of the 21st Century, Morocco has gone through various phases to emerge as a regional economic power conscious of the privileged strategic position it occupies at the tip of Africa controlling one side of the narrow Strait of Gibraltar that links the Mediterranean with the Atlantic…
The trouble with aid: Why less means more for Africa, by Jonathan Glennie, Zed Books, London. F&N Books Reviewer
Between 1970 and 2002, African countries received close to $300 billion in development aid, but the continent continues to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of economic growth. This situation has continually stumped development economists who believe that by international financial institutions and Western countries throwing money…
The French Oil Industry and the Corps des Mines in Africa, by Douglas Yates. Africa World Press, 2009, New Jersey, USA and Asmara, Eritrea. F&N Books reviewer
The French have always been ruthless when it comes to exploiting Africa’s natural resources. Take Congo. When in 1997 President Pascal Lissouba stood in the way of the French state-owned oil company, Elf Aquitaine, Paris turned a blind eye as ex-President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s Cobr a rebels launched an attack…
African Countries in the New Trade Negotiations: Interests, Options and Challenges, edited by Dominique Njinque and Philip English. Africa World Press,2008, New Jersey, USA and Asmara, Eritrea. F&N Books reviewer.
As global trade negotiations under the aegis of the World Trade Organisations remain unresolved, countries are trying to see how best they could continue to be part of world trade. Africa has always been at a disadvantage at the WTO because most of the countries on the continent do not…
Books play a big role in education
We are in the second year of the Second Decade of Education for Africa (2006-2015) spearheaded by the African Union. It was launched in Maputo in September 2006 with the hope that this time round the goals will be achieved. According to an AU report, an evaluation of the first…
Annan calls for greater multilateralism to meet global challenges
The former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has appealed for urgent reform of the global multilateral institutions to provide ‘fair and lasting solutions’ because the world’s most pressing challenges could only be overcome through multilateral solutions. Addressing a ceremony in Oslo to mark the 50th anniversary of the…
