Add to ORKGrior to independence, Africans eagerly looked forward to the end of colonial rule and imagined a future of abundant opportunities. The end of colonial rule was expected to herald a new era of freedom, self-determination, and prosperity. Exploitative, racist, and downright immoral, colonialism was popularly perceived as the barrier between citizens and the attainment of decent socioeconomic potentials. Independence was, therefore, seen as the panacea for socioeconomic ills and key to hitherto inhibited human devel opment. To the utter dismay of the citizenry, post-colonial Africa turned out to be a textbook case of empty promises and failed expectations. As quality leadership, authoritarianism, and ineptitude prevailed, democra...
The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European coloni...
A review of: Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ...
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Roots of Africa\u27s Political Problems reveals that the present da...
In 1961, just as the countries of Africa were acquiring their independence, a junior Washington Even...
Colonial rule which lasted for over a century in some African countries had devastating consequences...
The process of gaining independence in Africa was accompanied by the intensified colonial liberation...
The political independence that the people of Africa attained over the last four decades was not a g...
From a high point at the dawn of independence in the 1960s, the aspirations of the majority of the A...
The paper begins from the axiomatic point that, despite the form it eventually took, namely that of ...
During colonialism, African countries were exposed to severe living circumstances and human rights a...
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstrea...
Very few, if anyone, can argue that Africa’s connection and relationship with the West is an asymmet...
Both the theory and practice of human rights in sub-Saharan Africa evokes a great deal of controvers...
In the late 1940s and 1950s, much of Whitehall and the British media’s rhetoric concerning the rate ...
"Bad governance has often been identified as the explanans for the weakness and subsequent collapse ...
The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European coloni...
A review of: Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ...
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Roots of Africa\u27s Political Problems reveals that the present da...
In 1961, just as the countries of Africa were acquiring their independence, a junior Washington Even...
Colonial rule which lasted for over a century in some African countries had devastating consequences...
The process of gaining independence in Africa was accompanied by the intensified colonial liberation...
The political independence that the people of Africa attained over the last four decades was not a g...
From a high point at the dawn of independence in the 1960s, the aspirations of the majority of the A...
The paper begins from the axiomatic point that, despite the form it eventually took, namely that of ...
During colonialism, African countries were exposed to severe living circumstances and human rights a...
Words like 'colonialism' and 'empire' were once frowned upon in the U.S. and other Western mainstrea...
Very few, if anyone, can argue that Africa’s connection and relationship with the West is an asymmet...
Both the theory and practice of human rights in sub-Saharan Africa evokes a great deal of controvers...
In the late 1940s and 1950s, much of Whitehall and the British media’s rhetoric concerning the rate ...
"Bad governance has often been identified as the explanans for the weakness and subsequent collapse ...
The Scramble for Africa refers to the period between roughly 1884 and 1914, when the European coloni...
A review of: Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ...
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Roots of Africa\u27s Political Problems reveals that the present da...