Fictions, Factors and Futures: Reflections on Africa's Impressive Growth

2012
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Development
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Geci Karuri-Sebina, Rasigan Maharajh, Alioune Sall, Alinah Segobye.
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Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 
1461 7072

The vision of ‘Africa's Impressive Growth’ has been espoused to great excitement and acclaim in recent years, a reigniting of the euphoria of the independence era of African nations in the 1950s and 1960s. Geci Karuri-Sebina, Alioune Sall, Rasigan Maharajh and Alinah Segobye test the credibility of the claim and reflect it against six key developmental dimensions: political, economic, social, technological, learning, and ecological. They suggest that Africa needs a more grounded perspective on her future prospects, one that could be bright depending on improved education and leadership.

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