Beyond its mineral/natural resource : why Africa matters to the world

• Main Author: Ibrahim A. Gambari
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103907; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20054
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

After independence, many African states assumed self-governance would produce good governance, but the experience proved otherwise with military coups, civil wars, poor trade relations, external debt and famines. These problems resulted in a sense of “Afro-pessimism.” However, after the end of the C...