Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a9
Armstrong Mudzengerere
The study seeks to develop a research agenda on why Africa needs new non-conventional partners like Viet-nam and the United Arab Emirates in Development Cooperation (DC). Existing studies have focused more on conceptual dissections of strategies towards Africa in the trendy Africa+1 summit binge overlooking the lessons and complementarities that can emerge from reciprocal direct cooperation between African countries and new non-traditional partners. The paper suggests that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Vietnam are offering opportunities for shared learning, technology transfer, information sharing and “learning by doing together” in agriculture trans-formation and digitalization for intra Africa trade. In proposing this avenue of thought for new non-traditional partners, the paper seeks to recenter the discourse on the specific investment needs of Africa, “putting money where Africa needs it”.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a5
Mourad Aty
Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, the United Nations has been actively disseminating seventeen (17) sustainable develop-ment goals (SDGs). The agenda calls for global partnerships for what it called “peace and prosperity for people and the planet”. SDG number sixteen (16) seeks to promote peace, justice and institutional effi-ciency. This seems to be a long and complex process when it comes to Africa. The African continent is the most fragile in terms of sustainable development given that most of its regions are conflict-torn. When it comes to peace and stability as a prerequisite to sustainable development, it is clear that the northern, western, and Horn regions are now the most unstable in the whole continent. Amidst all this, the United States Africa Command was created in 2007 to safe-guard peace, bring stability and provide prosperity in the region. Drawing on source materials, mainly from the US Department of Defense and its Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), along with the AFRICOM Posture Statements to Congress of 2018 through 2022, this paper argues that the creation of the US Africa Command did not achieve any of the set mission goals. To the contrary, it was an attrac-tion factor to terrorist groups which spread all over the region. Through several datasets, the paper also shows that more threats became imminent and more countries were plunged into bloodshed. More failed states in the region would make it impossible for the implementation of any of the 2030 Agenda’s SDGs
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a1
Garcia Neves Quitari
For approximately four decades, the Angolan gov-ernment has favored investment policies based on national corporations, policies which are changing in recent years due to the appeal for foreign direct investment. In this context, this article intends to reflect on agricultural investment policies in Angola, aiming above all to understand the growth trend of agribusiness and the various competing projects for agricultural development. This reflection implies considerations about these projects and the agricul-tural policies implemented over the past 40 years and the effects of the recent government developments to promote private investment in agriculture in the post-civil war period.
{"title":"Políticas de investimentos agrícolas em Angola: projetos em concorrência e as tendências do século XXI","authors":"Garcia Neves Quitari","doi":"10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a1","url":null,"abstract":"For approximately four decades, the Angolan gov-ernment has favored investment policies based on national corporations, policies which are changing in recent years due to the appeal for foreign direct investment. In this context, this article intends to reflect on agricultural investment policies in Angola, aiming above all to understand the growth trend of agribusiness and the various competing projects for agricultural development. This reflection implies considerations about these projects and the agricul-tural policies implemented over the past 40 years and the effects of the recent government developments to promote private investment in agriculture in the post-civil war period.","PeriodicalId":34840,"journal":{"name":"Africana Studia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82294180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a2
Abdoulaye Aboubacari Mohamed, Felipe Souza Calmon de Almeida, Gabriel Teixeira Ervilha, J. E. Lima
This paper examine the efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetary Union). Using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), we calculate the technical efficiency scores in a sample of 80 savings and credit cooperatives in 2014. We find higher levels for social efficacy than for financial efficiency. The comparative analysis of effectiveness according to the country of origin of the microfinance institution shows that no country has a monopoly on good performance. One of the important conclusions is that inefficiency is better explained by pure technical ineffectiveness rather than by scale. Therefore, improving the effi-ciency of MFIs involves improving technical capa-bility by promoting training, better equipment and quality of management.
{"title":"Eficiência técnica das instituições de microfinanças na região da União Econômica e Monetária do Oeste Africano (UEMOA)","authors":"Abdoulaye Aboubacari Mohamed, Felipe Souza Calmon de Almeida, Gabriel Teixeira Ervilha, J. E. Lima","doi":"10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examine the efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in WAEMU (West African Economic and Monetary Union). Using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis), we calculate the technical efficiency scores in a sample of 80 savings and credit cooperatives in 2014. We find higher levels for social efficacy than for financial efficiency. The comparative analysis of effectiveness according to the country of origin of the microfinance institution shows that no country has a monopoly on good performance. One of the important conclusions is that inefficiency is better explained by pure technical ineffectiveness rather than by scale. Therefore, improving the effi-ciency of MFIs involves improving technical capa-bility by promoting training, better equipment and quality of management.","PeriodicalId":34840,"journal":{"name":"Africana Studia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86144852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a7
A. Perez, Teresa Medina, J. Santos
Angola is nowadays the place of important migra-tory movements in the framework of the habitability processes of large urban spaces - the Novas Cen-tralidades. This article, based on a study developed in the centrality of Quibaúla, aims to consider the articulation of housing policies in Angola with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), questioning the underlying logics and conceptions of develop-ment and the informal educational processes present and enhanced by the experience in the centralities. The research results allow us to sustain that these infrastructures, on the one hand, respond to needs in the area of housing and, consequently, contribute to the fulfilment of the 2030 agenda and, on the other hand, should be assumed as an «intra-inter-active» stage of a set of reconfigurations of lifestyles, with profound educational/formative effects on their residents
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a6
Issau Agostinho
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions in the world with the largest migration flows to the rest of the world, especially to the European continent, not only because of the geographical proximity between the two continents, but also because of the ongoing political and military instability in Libya, which, before the fall of the Gaddafi regime, was at the center of actions aimed at containing illegal migra-tion via the Central Mediterranean as a result of bilateral cooperation instruments signed with Italy in 2008. But the political chaos in that North African country does not explain by itself the constant flows of illegal migration and the high risk of violence, human trafficking and death that African migrants go through. The absence of concerted and coordinated migration policies among African states, the lack of a mandate from the African Union for a complete and efficient management of migration flows are among the immediate factors correlated to the phenomenon. Therefore, with the present theme I bring to confront the materialization of article 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals, with particular focus on 10.7, which recommends the facilitation of orderly, safe, regular migration of human subjects, with the public policy of immigration in sub-Saharan Africa in order to see how it contributes to the success or failure of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a3
Gideon Asante Yeboah, Kelvin Acheampong, Prince Henry Ebbey
China’s progressive assumption as a major actor on the African scene needs critical academic attention and examination. Although there are undoubtedly varied benefits, there are also concerns about whether China’s win-win rhetoric is sincere or just empty propaganda. This paper contributes to the debate by examining the relationship between China and Africa through the lens of neo-colonialism. In this regard, the paper examines China’s involvement in the tex-tiles and mining industries of Ghana as a case study to argue whether the partnership between China and Africa is one that actually promotes development or engenders a new trend of neo-colonialism. Since this research focuses on areas such as partnership (i.e., between Ghana and China) and illegal mining with its effects, it intersects four of the SDGs (clean water and sanitation [SDG 6]; sustainable cities and com-munities [SDG 11]; life below water [SDG 14]; and partnership for the goals [SDG 17].
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a8
R. Silva, Carla Delgado
This article analyses the discussions on the social media Twitter using SDG4 as a keyword. The data retrieved from Twitter allows you to establish the trends, understand what kind of discussions are taking place, as well as to develop a conceptual map using word pairs from the tweets. The data were mined from Twitter using R software through Twit-ter’s Academic Application Programming Interface for the period March 2020 to May 2022. The paper argues that republishing tweets is the most frequent trend. It also shows that the majority of the tweets use neutral language combining the use of the word’s education, #sdg4, quality and children. It also concludes that themes related to education in emergency and crisis, as well as the Education Can-not Wait multistakeholder partnership, prevail in the discussions.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a4
D. Ginga
{"title":"A Agenda 2030 e a Economia Azul enquanto vetor para o desenvolvimento sustentável e diversificação económica em Angola","authors":"D. Ginga","doi":"10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21747/0874-2375/afr38a4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34840,"journal":{"name":"Africana Studia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72759982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.21747/0874-2375/afr36a5
A. Nascimento
{"title":"A (des)organização social e indisciplina no futebol do São Tomé e Príncipe independente","authors":"A. Nascimento","doi":"10.21747/0874-2375/afr36a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21747/0874-2375/afr36a5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34840,"journal":{"name":"Africana Studia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85964587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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