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Africa Rising: Shedding Black Africa's Burden

Africa Rising: Shedding Black Africa's Burden

Ogula, David

Paperback

Series: Social Science, Book 1

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 0578524120
ISBN13: 9780578524122
Publisher: David Ogula
Published: Aug 22 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The images that readily capture people's imagination when asked about Africa are: hunger, disease, famine, malnutrition, civil strife, unpaved roads and general underdevelopment. These images constitute black Africa's burden. They paint a stunning irony between that sense of pride that streams from Africa's status as the font of human civilization and its inability to build that sense of pride into better lives for its people. Dr. Ogula makes the case in Africa Rising: Shedding Black Africa's Burden, that black Africa must take responsibility for its own development without allowing its primal proclivities taking control. He maintains that to lift themselves out of poverty and disadvantage and rise to join the global community, black Africans must examine those aspects of their cultural heritage which are incompatible with 21st-century life, and adapt to the contemporary socio-political environment, so that they can embrace the opportunities for development offered by cooperation with intercontinental partners. Black Africa must prove itself capable of advancing its own development plans to win the respect of the global community.

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