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Why do African peoples remain so poor? What kind of an alternative strategy could enable them to shape their own future, to realize the vast potential of their continental resources? This book, the culmination of the first phase of work of the Task Force on Sustainable Development in Africa, aims to stimulate classroom and study group discussions, debates, and further research in seven key areas: economy, legal order, environment, education, health, gender, and regional integration.

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The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. And in Nigeria, it was accepted that it should come quickly. But there was a problem. Nigeria’s minorities, peoples—comprising about 40 per cent of the country’s population—profoundly feared for their future

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Located on the eastern bank of the lower Niger, Onitsha is one of the leading commercial cities and road transport hubs in Nigeria. Its main market is reputed to be the biggest in West Africa. Founded well before the twentieth century by an Igbo community, it is also predominantly Igbo in population. For a greater part of the twentieth century, up to the late 1950s, it was the leading educational center in southeastern Nigeria. During this period, it spawned a large volume of fictional

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The author examines the introduction of the one party state in Zambia and its role in the political history of the country and argues that the failure of multi-party politics during the First Republic, which lasted from independence in 1964 to December 1972, reflected the lack of preparedness during the colonial period for plural politics.

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The global political changes that we have seen in the last few years have shown quite clearly that the Cold War has, indeed, ceased to be the dynamic factor in international relations. In Africa, the march toward a new world order is fraught with old problems and emerging ones: extreme ethno-religious nationalism still underscores intra-African conflicts; the continent is sunk more than ever before in the deep abyss of economic stagnation; catastrophic wars are still going on; environmental degradation is increasingly becoming a major problem, and in some states, the search for a democratic political system has turned into civil violence which threatens the very foundation of national sovereignty. These are fundamental problems that collectively pose a threat to the security of the continent.

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Five contributors, including the editor, posit alternative modes of explanation, some of which are explored further in the critique of several world history textbooks and their misconceptions and false assumptions, as well as a review of the Europocentric-Afrocentric debate of the 1990s. Other major topics addressed here are the historical writings on the Atlantic slave trade, reformist feminist evangelism, and the various forces involved in the development of Africanist theories and models.

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