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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ibrahim A. Gambari
• مؤلفون آخرون: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• التنسيق: Working Paper
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103907; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20054

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...