Global CSOs have emerged as a response to the deficiencies of global governance, of a ‘gap’ left by states and international organizations in representing public concerns and interests of citizens (Scholte 2000: 281 ff.). Governments often show a lack
(AU) has contributed substantially to Africa's development achievements in the past decade and argues that if African nations were to give more of their sovereignty to the AU and make it a stronger federal union, it could do more to improve the lives of the vast majority of people on the...
In most societies, children are regarded as one of the most important fruits of marital union. Anecdotal evidence shows that many parents within African societies perceive their children as assets for the future, the reason for engaging in paid work and their purpose for living. In protecting and...
The Earth is a highly complex system formed by mutually interlinked components (land, atmosphere, ocean), its interfaces (land-atmosphere, atmosphere-ocean, land-ocean) and processes operating on a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Our capacity to understand the whole system is predicated...
Pan-Africanism, the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified. There are many varieties of Pan-Africanism. In its narrowest political manifestation, Pan-Africanists envision a unified African nation where all people
Thomas Sankara, military officer and proponent of Pan-Africanism who was installed as president of Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso) in 1983 after a military coup, serving until he was killed during another coup that occurred in 1987. Read here to learn m
Julius Nyerere was the first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961) and later became the first president of the new state of Tanzania (1964). He was a major force behind the modern Pan-African movement and one of the founders in 1963 of the Orga
Mahama was born into a politically active family. His father, Emmanuel Adama Mahama, served as a member of Parliament as well as a regional commissioner in the government of Ghana’s first president,Kwame Nkrumah. John Mahama attendedprimary schoolat the Achimota School inAccraand attended the Gh...