The Elusive African Renaissance

<p> Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there.</p><p> This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.</p>