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Foreword -- Note -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: New Pan African Economics -- Introduction -- A Book Objective: New Cultural Approaches to African International Political Economy -- Some Research Questions and a Thesis: The Relevance of Pan African Economics -- A Book Overview: Chapters 2 Through 6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Charting New Frames for African Global Engagement: Resuscitated Histories, Reimagined Concepts, and Reapplied Conte... -- Introduction -- A Methodological Framework: The Cultural International Political Economy of Africa -- Background: Review of African International Political Economy -- Africanist vs African Perspectives on Contemporary International Political Economy -- The Hidden Ideology of Africa Rising -- Pan African Economic Histories -- Pan Africanism as a Third Way -- The International Political-Economy of Pan-Africa Rising: New African Middle Classes, Decolonial Glocal Contexts, and Democrat... -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: South Africa´s Ubuntu BRICS and Nigeria´s Afri-Capitalist MINTS: The Comparative Political Economy of (Pan) African... -- Introduction -- The International Political Economy of Nigerian and South African Emerging Markets -- National Ideologies, Developmental States, and African Class Structures: Nigeria and South Africa Compared -- Developmental Democratic States -- National Bourgeoisies and Incipient Business Classes -- The Political Economy of New Middle Classes and Entrepreneurship -- The International Political Economy of Nigeria and South Africa in a Global World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Philosophy of African Economic Humanism: Ubuntu and Afri-Capitalism as Case Studies -- Introduction -- African Economic Humanism: From Pan Africanism to African Renaissance

Challenges and opportunities for Africa : an overview of key themes from the PACN Biodiversity Conference / S.C. Smith -- Exploring the therapeutic potentials of African medicinal plants / C. Wambebe -- Natural products from plant biodiversity and their use in the treatment of neglected diseases / J.O. Midiwo -- In vitro and in vivo antiplasmodial activity of Kenyan medicinal plants / M.O. Nanyingi ... [et al.] -- Anti-larval activity of crude plant extracts from Vitex schliebenii and Vitex payos (Verbenaceae) / G.N. Mokua ... [et al.] -- Natural products as leads for new and innovative crop protection chemicals / J.M. Clough -- Exploiting phytochemical diversity to control pests of agriculture and vectors of human and animal disease / A.M. Hooper ... [et al.] -- Root chemicals could offer opportunities for breeding for sweet potato resistance to the weevil Cylas puncticollis Boheman (Coleoptera: Apionidae) / H. Muyinza ... [et al.] -- The role of biotechnology in meeting the biodiversity conservation challenge of Africa / A.B. Salifu -- Farmers as a treasure chest of biodiversity -- the case of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in Ethiopia, a five decade analysis / F. Mekbib -- Delivery of appropriate cattle genotypes to eastern African smallholder farmers through in-vitro embryo production technologies -- the technical procedures, prospects and challenges / H.M. Mutembei ... [et al.] -- Levels of some nutrients and non-essential metals in cows' whole milk from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / E. Admasu ... [et al.] -- Water, water everywhere and when found not fit to drink / S.O. Wandiga -- Foundation for analytical science and technology in Africa and its role in the preservation of endangered species / S. Lancaster, N. Richards and A. Gachanja -- Jua Kali metallurgical industries as point sources of the heavy metals lead and cadmium to aquatic systems in Kenyan urban areas / S.M. Mule and C.M. Nguta -- An assessment of effluent treatment to reduce heavy metal levels in effluent from a battery manufacturing concern / E. Muleya and F. Chiumira -- Spectroscopic detection of gaseous ammonia in the environment / C.B.O. Kowenje and D.C. Doetschman -- Jatropha curcas L. as a source for the production of biodiesel in Kenya / A.W. Wagutu ... [et al.] -- Jatropha biodiesel as an alternative transport fuel in Zimbabwe / C.S. Shonhiwa, F.P. Gudyanga and Z. Chiguvare -- Biomass, bio-based products and bioenergy / P.C. Vieira -- Municipal solid waste as a resource rather than a waste. A preliminary study of biomass from Githurai Market, an open market on the outskirts of Nairobi City / N. Muriithi, C. Soi and J.M. Keriko.

The Pan-African movement is in utter disarray & independent Africa is suffering under neocolonial subservience to imperialism partly because of the limitations of bourgeois nationalist ideologies & strategies for decolonization. The historical movement of Pan-Africanism led by W. E. B. Du Bois & later by Kwame Nkrumah sought a unity imposed from above & not one emanating from a mass base. Consequently, the Pan-African movement remained abstract & ethereal, led by New World blacks alienated by Western racism, in search of privileges from colonial powers for "civilized" Africans only. The Pan-African conferences of the 20th century met in Western capitals & not clandestinely in Africa. Their participants bound themselves to pursue their goals by constitutional nonviolent methods in the face of imperialist aggression. Their adherents were largely the scattered intelligentsia & not the masses back in Africa. When the former colonies were granted independence, the bureaucratic-military machine of the colonial administration, & the econimic institutions of imperialist design were not dismantled, but merely transferred or inherited. The emerging authoritarian, exploitive, & elitist regimes adopted a series of contradictory political positions: anticommunism but antiimperialism; national liberation along with abstract nonviolence; & nonalignment yet economic development through foreign investment. Attempts at forging a union of African states were really efforts by neocolonial regimes to consolidate their power over the still exploited & demobilized masses. Genuine Pan-Africanism, as espoused by Franz Fanon & Amilcar Cabral, means the development of the national productive forces through socialist institutions by awakened workers & peasants. This requires the destruction of neocolonial structures, through armed struggle if necessary, by a truly internationalist movement that breaks the bonds of the village universe & tribalism & progressively integrates itself with other African & world revolutionary currents. A. Karmen.

Umrankt von zahlreicher Sponsorenwerbung bietet die Schrift eine Selbstdarstellung des Panafrikanischen Parlaments. Seine Entstehung, Funktionsweise und Entscheidungen (und damit der Zusammenhang mit NEPAD) werden erklärt; die Arbeit in den Ausschüssen wird erläutert. Der zweite Teil enthält prächtig bebilderte Kurzprofile der Mitgliedsländer. (GIGA-Sbd)

Examines the need for a second struggle for independence in Africa that is rooted in such principles as Pan-Africanism, Afro-Arab unity, South-South cooperation, progressive internationalism, & socioeconomic democracy. In general, Africa is facing political & economic deterioration & the prospect of recolonialization through the actions & policies of Western-controlled international agencies, eg, the World Bank & the International Monetary Fund. The second liberation of Africa can be achieved through the development of new African support organizations & coordinated activities ranging from championing Africa's vision & counteracting African misrepresentations to support for the democratization of society & programs for mass education. 16 References. D. Generoli

Das Buch vereint neun in 26 Jahren Beschäftigung mit Afrika geschriebene Essays; ihr gemeinsamer Nenner, sowohl in ideologischer als auch praxiologischer Hinsicht, ist der Panafrikanismus. Auf ihn läuft ihn dem zusammenfassenden zehnten Kapitel alles hinaus. In den ersten vier Essays setzt sich der Autor mit den europäisch-afrikanischen Beziehungen auseinander, er diskutiert die Abkommen mit der EU (bis zum Cotonou-Abkommen) und untersucht ausführlich die französisch-afrikanischen Beziehungen. Das folgende Kapitel zeigt, dass von Blockfreiheit bei den frankophonen Ländern nur begrenzt die Rede sein kann. In den nächsten Kapiteln geht es um regionale Kooperation und Integration (Kapitel 6), Konflikt und Konfliktlösung (Kapitel 7) und internationale Solidarität bei der Flüchtlingshilfe (Kapitel 8). In Kapitel 9 konstatiert der Autor die Krise des afrikanischen Nationalstaates aus der er die Notwendigkeit für "Regional Governance" ableitet. Im abschließenden Kapitel versucht er panafrikanische Konzepte (von Nkrumah, Cheikh Anta Diop etc.) wieder zu beleben, die den Nationalstaat transzendieren und wahre Unabhängigkeit bringen sollen. (DÜI-Sbd)