The Future of Nation - States in Africa Beyond the 21st Century
Author | : Dr. Thomas Otieno Juma (PhD) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1305013491 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This paper underscores that nation-states are very important fabrics of polity given that their existence and form determine and shape them for sovereign endowments and ultimately international politics. The future of nation-states hinges on their historical formation and progressive efforts put in nurturing their being. In asking what makes states exist or disappear and whether nation-states exist in Africa becomes a good starting point in building a thought into this thesis. In addition to this, the author would want to find projections of future existence of nation-states in Africa 21st Century and secondly, carrying out a politico-surgical analysis of African states and nation-state formations after independence. With this limited yet wide in scope summaries are made. The study finds this subject appealing because the concept nation-state seems to portend a gap in knowledge as currently used. This makes their existence is an issue for political scientists and other disciplines and more so in the African parlance. This will open a prism through which therefore the future of nation-states in Africa can be viewed now whether in stable units or through likely disintegrations of federalism or secession in the 21st century. The research will employ a qualitative inquiry on the basis of written material available and relevant to the thought which shall then be reviewed in context, form, and content to arrive at conclusions.