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The Future of Africa’s Development and Global Governance

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Africa Toward 2030

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Since the 1990s, Africa has faced a rapidly changing global environment with systemic dimensions that have major implications for the future of Africa’s development. But these changes are also part of an era of greater global structural vulnerability, posing a complex matrix of challenges for the continent where the spectre of global marginalisation always looms large. Steering mechanisms of global governance take on added meaning in the African context as these evolve “through the sponsorship of states, through the efforts of actors other than states at the transnational or subnational levels, or through states and other types of actors jointly sponsoring the formation of rule systems” (Rosenau 2009: 15). The erratic workings, inadequacies, and flaws of institutionalised structures, rule systems and norms of global governance conspire to bring Africa to a critical juncture. This is compounded by the fact that global governance is devoid of any grand logic, made up as it is of an anarchic and borderless web of interactions by formal and informal institutions, states, markets, and citizens. This multiplication of spheres of authority gives global governance its myriad of control mechanisms that derive from “different histories, goals, structures and processes” (Ibid: 9–10).

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le Pere, G., Ikome, F. (2012). The Future of Africa’s Development and Global Governance. In: Lundsgaarde, E. (eds) Africa Toward 2030. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230362154_9

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