Pub Date : 2020-12-14DOI: 10.1177/0975087820965172
Ainara Mancebo
A tripartite alliance formed by the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions has been ruling the country with wide parliamentarian majorities. The country remains more consensual and politically inclusive than any of the other African countries in the post-independence era. This article examines three performance’s aspects of the party dominance systems: legitimacy, stability and violence. As we are living in a period in which an unprecedented number of countries have completed democratic transitions, it is politically and conceptually important that we understand the specific tasks of crafting democratic consolidation.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-21DOI: 10.1177/0975087820965165
Shaka Yesufu
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an organisation that aims to facilitate cooperation between the governments of its Member States through a set of goals. SADC uses protocols as an instrument of coordination of its Member States on Transport, Communications and Meteorology endeavours to harmonise various aspects of traffic and transportation in the region. The researcher relies on carrying out an extensive literature review, consulting secondary data, official government publications and review of case studies. This article is informed by both the routine activity theory and situational crime prevention theory. It was found that the SADC regional body still has several barriers to overcome before a successful harmonisation stage to prevent crime will be achieved by Member States. Regional cooperation is needed amongst Member States to prevent organised borderless crime like human trafficking, drugs trafficking, fraud and money laundering, car-hijacking and terrorism.
{"title":"Harmonising Road Transport Legislation in the SADC Region for Crime Prevention","authors":"Shaka Yesufu","doi":"10.1177/0975087820965165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0975087820965165","url":null,"abstract":"The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an organisation that aims to facilitate cooperation between the governments of its Member States through a set of goals. SADC uses protocols as an instrument of coordination of its Member States on Transport, Communications and Meteorology endeavours to harmonise various aspects of traffic and transportation in the region. The researcher relies on carrying out an extensive literature review, consulting secondary data, official government publications and review of case studies. This article is informed by both the routine activity theory and situational crime prevention theory. It was found that the SADC regional body still has several barriers to overcome before a successful harmonisation stage to prevent crime will be achieved by Member States. Regional cooperation is needed amongst Member States to prevent organised borderless crime like human trafficking, drugs trafficking, fraud and money laundering, car-hijacking and terrorism.","PeriodicalId":42199,"journal":{"name":"Insight on Africa","volume":"13 1","pages":"28 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0975087820965165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45639170","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 : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1177/0975087820924177
O. Ojo
Joseph Yinka Fashagba, Ola-Rotimi Matthew Ajayi and Chiedo Nwankwor, The Nigerian National Assembly, Springer International Publishing, 2019, 198 pp., €83.19 (Hardcover), $67.40 (eBook-PDF), $67.40 (eBook-EPUB), ISBN 978-3-030-11904-1, ISBN 978-3-030-11905-8.
Joseph Yinka Fashagba、Ola Rotimi Matthew Ajayi和Chiedo Nwankwor，《尼日利亚国民大会》，斯普林格国际出版，2019年，198页，83.19欧元（硬封面），67.40美元（电子书PDF），67.40美元（电子书EPUB），ISBN 978-3-030-11904-1，ISBN 978-3-030-11905-8。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1177/0975087820922479
Sarabjit Kaur
The outbreak of political conflicts within countries has been a source of immense human suffering. The serious repercussions and challenges posed by these conflicts direct one to identify the factors that can be political or economic in nature for the outbreak of these domestic conflicts. The present study, without undermining the role of political factors, nevertheless considers economic factors in terms of inequality as significant for the outbreak of conflicts and particularly in understanding the Civil War and Niger Delta Crisis in the context of countries like Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-30DOI: 10.1177/0975087820924860
R. Anand
Sola Adesola and Feargal Brennan (Eds), Energy in Africa Policy, Management and Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2018, pp. 247, Hardcover €114.39, Softcover €114.39, eBook €93.08, ISBN-978-3-319-91300-1; ISBN-978-3-319-91301-8; ISBN-978-3-030-08217-8.
Sola Adesola和Feargal Brennan（Eds），《非洲能源政策、管理和可持续发展》，1002 Macmillan，Cham，Switzerland，2018，第247页，精装本114.39欧元，软封面114.39美元，电子书93.08欧元，ISBN-978-3-319-91300-1；Sola Adisola和Fergal BrennanISBN-978-3-319-91301-8；ISBN-978-3-030-08217-8。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-19DOI: 10.1177/0975087819891538
M. T. Yalew, Guo Changgang
This article analyses the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its implications for landlocked Ethiopia. Primary and secondary data sources are used to solicit viable information. The BRI is aimed to enhance policy coordination, financial integration, promote trade and investment, cultural exchanges and people-to-people relations across a wide geographical area involving Asia, Europe and Africa. The BRI is the next step in China’s global strategy after the reform and opening-up period, and it is important for job creation, infrastructural development, trade and investment and other related developments for landlocked least developing countries such as Ethiopia. For instance, the construction of the early BRI project of Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway has reduced transport costs and shortened the transport time from 3 days to 10 hours. Besides, the establishment of the East African Free Trade Agreement (FTA) at Djibouti by the Chinese government to facilitate trade in the region. Cumulatively, the BRI contributes to the growth of trade and investment opportunities for landlocked Ethiopia in terms of financing, infrastructure development and regional integration.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-12DOI: 10.1177/0975087820923991
Aleksi Ylönen
Historically, China maintained relations with faraway lands. These links included the intercontinental Silk Road and maritime trade routes, which connected China with other continents, including the eastern shores of Africa. However, apart from the exchange of goods, these routes also had a globalising effect through the spread of cultural influences, technology, ideologies and philosophical thought. Following its new push into Africa in the 1990s, China sought to rebuild these connections and has gone further to exert its influence through the Belt and Road Initiative. This article analyses China’s renewed interest in Africa, which increasingly ties the continent to the Indian Ocean economic area. It also reflects on some of the economic effects of Chinese involvement on the continent. The article shows that China initially sought to ensure access to strategic resources but has later moved to safeguard its growing involvement by establishing a physical and increasingly permanent presence in the territories of its key partners. While maintaining a selection of these partners at the core of its Africa policy, the Chinese economic engagement will continue to bring further economic benefits for the collaborating elites and their states. However, ensuring sustained growth and economic equality requires China’s key partners to engage in sound economic planning, policies and management.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1177/0975087820923995
Akorkor Kehinde Awoonor, J. Forson
Studies on perception in both development studies and international relations have shown that most nations have mutual perceptions predicated on and influenced by either fact, biases or stereotypes, or a combination of other identifiable qualitative variables. In this study, we explore and demonstrate that African perceptions differ from country to country and are well influenced by factors such as the country of origin, the knowledge base and orientation towards China. The connection between Africa and China is long etched in history (206 bce to 220 ce) evidenced by a series of cultural and trade exchanges between China and Egypt, and long since antiquated in historical records by the Chinese traveller, Du Huan, of the Tang Dynasty. With a combination of primary and secondary data collected via social survey using google forms with questionnaires administered to participants of 10 and 6 tertiary institutions in Ghana and Togo, respectively, and bolstered with documentary evidence, we find that there are no singular overarching African perceptions of China, as the African continent is a 55-state region with diverse conflicting political, economic and sociocultural proclivities. The study further observed that compared to Togolese, more Ghanaians perceive China to be a goodwill partner predicated on its involvement on public health emergencies of international concerns (PHEIC) and influence on national economies through debt reliefs and other form of assistance.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-03DOI: 10.1177/0975087820909333
Mpho Rakhare, T. Coetzee
The article acknowledges that Lesotho governance has been characterised by unstable democracy since its attainment of independence in 1966, which makes civil society and other democratic institutions unable to pursue their roles as expected. The proposed solution to overcome predicaments that Lesotho faces was to have active and vibrant democratic institutions such as civil societies, ombudsman, political parties, independent media, independent electoral commissions and the legislative, executive and judiciary. The article aims to bridge the gap by examining published literature and documentary review, which clearly elucidate how good governance can be achieved in a democratic country with the help of active democratic institutions. The article highlights the importance of active and vibrant civil society in governance and public policy. The article concludes by justifying that in deed the government of Lesotho should accept and allow participation of civil society so as to be able to realise its contribution and the important role played by it. Also, civil society in Lesotho must distance themselves from suspicions that they are political parties in disguise.
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