Globalization and Africa's Regional and Local Responses

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ID7463045
AuthorsGuy Massamba (The World Bank, 181 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA.), Samuel Kariuki (0000-0003-3209-9503), Samuel M Kariuki (University of the Witwatersrand), Stephen N Ndegwa (Globalization Research Center, University of California, 405 Hilgard Avenue, 10359 Bunche Hall, Mailcode 148703, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA., corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume39
Issue1-2
Pages29-45
Publication date2004-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021909604048248
OpenAlexW2004058433
LanguageEN
References cited14

As a response to globalization, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is indicative of a new awareness among African leaders that they must respond in ways that create empowering opportunities for African societies to benefit from, rather than be victims of, globalization. Following a review of Africa's responses to previous epochs of globalization, we examine the relevance of leadership given the dismal record of past development efforts and given the hard choices pressed upon African societies by the dynamics of current globalization. We assert that the NEPAD can be transformative if it does not limit its efforts to institutional restructuring and governance but, in addition, becomes a coda for effective leadership. Finally, we highlight the limits and frustrations faced by post-apartheid South Africa—where the state has fully embraced global economic imperatives but must also confront the socioeconomic needs of its apartheid-scarred constituencies, as evident from local resistances

Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · General partnership · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Transformative learning · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Development and Aid · World Systems and Global Transformations · Law

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