gration and brain drain in sub-Saharan countries:case study Cameroon. Introduction Migration is a natural human reflex as old as humanity. Although a natural reflex it can be effectively argued that some factors have accounted for its pervasive nature in contemporary times. However, with the unprecedented rise of globalization in all its facets, international migration and subsequently brain drain (most frequently from the global south to the north) remain one of those consequences of globalization
1. Introduction Africa at least for more than half of century was the condominium of the West except its two parts: Ethiopia and Liberia. Before colonization African societies has lived in state or stateless societies. The society has its own political structure. Those society formed patrimonial political system. Mean a while officially the Europe started colonization in Africa around 1870s. The Europe exploited resources and alienated Africans from any kind of rights. Then the different groups,
When Europeans first arrived to Ghana in 1471, their aim was to create a society that had buildings and a structured government, and have the ability to trade in gold, ivory and slaves. For the next 400 years, the Europeans would build what would later be known as Ghana by attracting citizens with the great amount of resources and using the slave trade to conquer more land. However, the citizens of Ghana were getting angry with their lack of freedom as they were treated as lower class people. War
European colonization of Rwanda has had detrimental effects that are clearly visible long after Rwanda’s independence in 1962. Belgian influence instilled racist ideology into the minds of Tutsi’s, assured all political power would belong to Tutsi’s, and classified ethnic boundaries. All of these Belgian influences are explored in Boubacar Boris Diop’s book Murambi: The Book of Bones. Diop explores the atrocities committed in Rwanda and makes reference to European influence that eventually sparked
Seemingly, the adoption of the systems of government including elections did not match African interests from the very beginning of independence as can be observed in Nyerere’s statement from Mwipopo (2011) “the first President of Tanzania argued that, in contemporary Africa, multiparty system had no reason to exist. According Mwalimu Nyerere, unique African societies did not need multi-party system”. This is an indication that elections accruing from the same were also not desirable and hence how
INTRODUCTION There has been growing tension and doubt on Africa becoming a developmental continent. Conceptualising the nature and challenges of public administration and management can be seen as a great impact to Africa becoming a developmental state. Public administration is a tool that guides the delivery of public sector management. In a numerous countries in Africa managing the public sector suggests a continuous mission to good governance. Good governance is one the core requirements
times has gone through many phases. In the pre-independence period Gandhiji's vision of good governance essentially meant democratic decentralisation which entailed power to the Gram Panchayats and people at the lowest level of political hierarchy. By the early 1990s, however, the idea of good governance had turned into a metaphor of donor-conditionality for the debt-ridden countries of Asia and Africa. It was often blamed for social unrest and political upheaval in many parts of the world. But freed
blacks since 1980. Therefore, the three major streams that have fed into Zimbabwe's political culture are African traditionalism, settler colonialism, and liberation war politics. These three streams have worked separately and in combination to anchor authoritarianism and against the growth and development of democratic attitudes and behaviours. The result of this is that these three streams have reinforced post-independence autocratic practices and produced the hardened strain of authoritarianism that
the public goods in Sub-Saharan Africa and if the onset of democracy decreases this behaviour. The article address the concepts of ethnic favouritism, described as ‘a situation where co-ethics benefit from patronage and public policy decisions and thus receive a disproportionate share of public resources, when members of their ethnic group control the government’ (Miguel, Morjaria and Miquel, 2014). It lays out this concept clearly and explains that it emerges when weak political institutions are in
sensible African people. All this and more, Jeff Chu brings forth quoting Smith: “People don't usually see this side of Africa,” McCall Smith says by way of explaining the books’ success. “They just see war, famine and oppression.”2 The observation of Perry corresponds with Jeff Chu. They are reassured that the people around the world tend to witness mere only the evil side of Africa as war, famine and oppression, on the contrary; Smith looks the other way round with expectant impression. The very African