An African perspective on development : learning to live and living to learn in the 21st century /
In this book, the distinguished South African academic Akpovire Oduaran examines the challenges presented by the changing landscape of socio-economic transformations and strategic learning in the twenty-first century, especially in the context of Anglophone Africa. UNESCO has indicated that as at Se...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Academica Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | In this book, the distinguished South African academic Akpovire Oduaran examines the challenges presented by the changing landscape of socio-economic transformations and strategic learning in the twenty-first century, especially in the context of Anglophone Africa. UNESCO has indicated that as at September 2009, the world is still home to 776 million adults who could not read, write or compute to an appreciable level of understanding. The majority of these people, mostly adults, live in the so-called developing world. Added to the teeming millions of illiterate youths, this is a major crisis. The scenario presents even greater concerns for scholars in Africa. Years after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education for All (EFA) program were put in place as the major foci of development in Africa, the continent is still grappling with many difficult problems. Nearly three-quarters of the world's poorest people live in sub-Saharan Africa. The number of people living on less than one US dollar was 389 million in 2013. Africa's share of world poverty is said to have risen from 19% in 1990 to 31% by 2004, and was still rising. The health challenges presented by HIV and AIDS present another huge need for African leaders to sit up and confront the limiting factors that have confronted their people for so long. These challenges obviously require everyone to learn to live and live to learn on a continuous basis. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-373) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781680530551 1680530550 |