African Miracle Research Articles

The world ahead: our future in the making

* Introduction * part 1: Towards a New Social Contract * 1. Population: Is a Tmie-Bomb Ticking? * 2. The Scandal of Poverty and Exclusion * 3. Humanizing the City * 4. The Future of Urban Transport: Safer, Cleaner, Closer * 5. Women Make the World Go Round * 6. Winning the Fight Against Drugs: Education, Development and Purpose * Part 2: Towards a Natural Contract: Science, Development and the Environment * 7. Developing with the Earth * 8. The Advancing Desert * 9. Is Water Running Out? * 10. Will There be Food for Everybody? * 11. Feeding the World: Are Biotechnologies the Answer? * 12. Towards the Revolution of 'Energy Efficiency' * Part Three: Towards a Cultural Contract: From the Information Society to the Knowledge Society? * 13. The New Technology Revolution: Information, Communication and Knowledge * 14. What Future for Books and Reading? * 15. An Endangered Heritage: Languages * 16. Education at the Horizon 2020: With or Without Distance? * Part Four: Towards a New Ethical Contract * 17. Will There be an 'African Miracle'? * 18. The Divedends of Peace and Global Security * 19. What Future for the United Nations System? * 20. Towards a Culture of Peace * Conclusion: Towards an Ethics of Future * Index

An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development

An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development

In search of the African miracle: debates on successful small enterprise development in Africa

The aim in this article is to examine the ingredients of ‘success’ in the small enterprise development experience of Africa. More specifically, it seeks to review and selectively highlight issues of the successes of the African small enterprise development experience and to identify the key factors or agents of change with a focus upon the record of sub-Saharan Africa. Overall, this paper focusses on identifying (1) the elements of successful enterprises, (2) the ingredients of successful clusters of enterprises, and (3) the best practices of policy support for small enterprise development in Africa, in terms of both finance and business development services.

An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development

An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development

Dissecting the South African miracle: African parallels

This article analyses the establishment of an inclusive liberal‐democracy in South Africa. It contends that the representation of the South African transition as a miracle rests on two common myths: the myth of non‐racialism and the myth of the South Africa model. It is argued that the 1994 elections revealed an electorate polarized on racial lines and that the notion of the transfer of power in South Africa as unique is overdrawn. It points out that there are striking parallels between the transformation of South Africa and other cases in Africa where there was a transfer of power from a white minority to the African majority, most notably those of Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Policing and the South African Miracle

Policing and the South African Miracle