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Strengthening ties with Africa has become a top priority for the current geopolitical European Commission. The focus on Africa is not new: Since 2004, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has gradually developed a framework for political dialogue and reforms in Northern African countries, which form part of the Southern Neighbourhood. The conclusion of association agreements and free trade agreements (FTAs) at the end of the previous century brought these countries closer to the European Union (EU) in commercial terms. In February 2021, the EU launched a renewed agenda for the South Mediterranean with a view to integrating these economies further to the EU edifice. Against this backdrop, this Article discusses how economic integration manifests itself in the region. It further pinpoints the economic fundamentals and political realities that will shape further economic integration between the EU and Northern Africa. A central element of EU's renewed strategy in the region is the conclusion of deep and comprehensive free trade agreements (DCFTAs) with Northern African countries. It is argued that the conclusion of such agreements will constitute a litmus test for EU's new assertive approach in trade matters in line with the newly adopted concept of open strategic autonomy.
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), Southern Neighbourhood, Northern Africa, EU trade policy, EU foreign policy, strategic autonomy, deep and comprehensive free trade agreements (DCFTAs), South Mediterranean, economic integration

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Keynote Address -- Being White Today -- Whiteness. Post-apartheid, decolonial -- Whiteness, post-apartheid -- Whiteness, the decolonial turn? -- References -- Where are the Suzmans, Slovos, Fischers and Naudés of today? -- References -- The 'white man's burden'. Fifteen years after the TRC -- References -- Appendix -- White power today -- References -- Whiteness and the South African Economy -- Capitalism, racialism and whiteness -- References -- The colour of capital -- Introduction -- Turning to my topic -- Our settler colonialism and its organisation of wealth and power -- The new capitalism -- Dear Mother Africa -- Double standards and black privilege. The new story of South Africa -- The demands of the new world sustain the sins of the old. The parks fable on transformation -- Transformation: Theory and practice -- Old and new structures -- The transformation conundrum -- Long-run wealth and debt patterns -- Culture and extensions of capital -- A zero-sum game? Conclusions -- References -- The World of Ideas. The Place of Afrikaans -- The world of ideas. The place of Afrikaans -- Afrikaner intellectual history. An interpretation -- Origins -- The search for self-expression -- The exclusionary state -- A continuing tradition? -- References -- The hidden histories of Afrikaans -- For Tienie du Plessis (1949-2015) -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- References -- A South African ('n Suid-Afrikaner) university. Is it possible? -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- Reference -- Closing Remarks -- Achille Mbembe -- Mathews Phosa -- Back cover.

"Women & the law : innovative approaches to teaching research and analysis explores the strategies and methods that break the mould of traditional legal teaching and research by engaging women's experiences with the law in various legal disciplines. Some of these are traditional legal fields such as jurisprudence, criminal, family, labour and commercial law while others are specialist areas that need to be engaged with the law. These include issues of social justice, human rights, gender and sexuality, masculinities and access to resources. The contributors to this volume draw on their practical examples from teaching courses on a postgraduate Masters in Women's Law at the Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women's Law based at the University of Zimbabwe ... The book addresses two major aspects of this specialist masters programme in women's law: namely what has been taught and how it has been taught"--Back cover

The study was carried out between June 1980 and Dec. 1984 in the Mumbulla State Forest. Ninety-nine individuals were caught in Eucalyptus forest that had been logged in 1979-80 and burnt in 1980. The population was discrete, occupying an area of about 500 ha near the centre of the forest. The repeated capture of 35 individuals enabled movement patterns to be determined. Females occupied small home ranges, and capture sites did not overlap with those of other females. Males did not have exclusive capture sites and the home ranges overlapped. Their movement patterns fell into two groups: explorer males and resident males. The largest movement of an explorer male was 1025 m in 24 h. With data pooled for all trapping periods, the observed range length was 79.5 plus or minus 8.2 m for females; 104.9 plus or minus 14.5 m for resident males and 720.7 plus or minus 93.5 m for explorer males; the average distance between captures was 49.3 plus or minus 2.8 m for females, 63.4 plus or minus 10.3 m for resident males and 481.8 plus or minus 106.1 m for explorer males. Suitable habitat, such as recently disturbed forest, may occur naturally only as disjunct and temporary patches, hence the ability to travel long distances enables this species to utilize these suddenly abundant and transient resources.

There are 64 countries whose laws criminalise homosexuality, and nearly half of them are in Africa. Many of the laws have origins in colonial times.

In die deutsche Afrikapolitik ist Bewegung gekommen. Es zeichnet sich eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit ab. Auch wenn die Richtung stimmt, ist der Fokus auf Direktinvestitionen unzureichend. Anstelle von "Entwicklungshilfe" muss eine vernetzte Afrikapolitik her, die Handels- und Migrationspolitik umfasst und auf einem ehrlichen Dialog mit Afrika beruht.
Es gibt gute Gründe für eine Ausrichtung der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kontinent auf wirtschaftliche Entwicklung: Das Einkommensgefälle zwischen Afrika und dem Rest der Welt, der schleppende Strukturwandel, fehlende produktive Beschäftigung, und ein ungedeckter Bedarf an privaten und öffentlichen Investitionen. Diese Probleme sind jedoch nicht allein durch eine Kombination deutscher Direktinvestitionen in Reformpartnerländern mit zielgerichteter Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zu lösen.
Dem Ansatz "wir entwickeln Afrika" gilt es, eine Zusammenarbeit mit afrikanischen Partnern gegenüberzustellen, die die deutschen Möglichkeiten nutzt und sich nicht überschätzt. Diese Afrikapolitik muss vernetzt sein: Sie muss multilateral gedacht werden und ihre Handlungsfelder müssen deutlich über die Entwicklungspolitik hinausgehen.
Mehr Politikkohärenz für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Afrika gibt es nicht kostenlos. Entsprechende Zielkonflikte, beispielsweise in der Landwirtschaftspolitik, sollten in einem ehrlichen Dialog transparent gemacht werden. Dieser darf nicht auf fokussierte Reformpartnerschaften begrenzt sein, sondern muss auch Angebote insbesondere für ärmere Länder machen.
Für die Umsetzung einer vernetzten Politik, die die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Afrika in den Mittelpunkt stellt, und für einen ehrlichen und intensiveren Dialog mit Afrika ist eine bessere Kenntnis der gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen auf dem Kontinent eine wichtige Voraussetzung. Solche Kompetenzen gilt es zu stärken. Außerdem bedarf es einer besseren Zusammenarbeit der unterschiedlichen Ministerien, die sich an einer übergeordneten afrikapolitischen Strategie orientiert.

Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional. -- Provided by publisher