Africa after Fifty Years
Subtitle: Retrospections and Reflections
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781592219087
Subjects: Africa, economic conditions; Africa, politics and government; Africa, social conditions
Description: "By the end of the 1960s most African countries gained political independence. The new corps of leadership envisioned not only a politically stable continent; they also imagined a more cohesive Africa, with bubbly economies driven by the continent's enormous natural and human resources. Approximately fifty years after independence this hope of a politically stable, integrated, and economically thriving Africa has remained elusive for most African countries. African economies remained undiversified with limited capacities for industrialization and economic development. African economies remained tied to western European counties and the United States of America."--Publisher's website.