Unbinding Africa: Making globalisation work for good governance
Promoting good governance is high on the list of priorities of Northern and African policymakers. But before we can build strong institutions, democracy and the rule of law we need to tackle the double bind facing Africans today. On the one hand, African states often do not have the capacity to institute much needed reforms. Yet the solution – giving Northern Governments, companies and NGOs overwhelming influence over how African countries are run – is only making their governments weaker over the long-term. Unbinding Africa explores how globalisation in its current form is affecting the continent.
Unbinding Africa: Making globalisation work for good governance
edited by Phoebe Griffith
Promoting good governance is high on the list of priorities of Northern
and African policymakers. But before we can build strong institutions,
democracy and the rule of law we need to tackle the double bind facing
Africans today. On the one hand, African states often do not have the
capacity to institute much needed reforms. Yet the solution – giving
Northern Governments, companies and NGOs overwhelming influence
over how African countries are run – is only making their governments
weaker over the long-term. Unbinding Africa explores how globalisation
in its current form is affecting the continent. In this collection of essays
a group of leading thinkers and practitioners puts forward a set of new
organising principles for donors, companies and NGOs to take the good
governance agenda forward.
In collaboration with CDC Capital Partners.
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About the Contributors
Alex de Waal is Programme Director for the commission for HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa and its Director of Justice Africa
Christopher Kalade is the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Ayisi Makatiani is Co-Founder of Africa Online and the Chairman of Gallium Capital Partners
Ezra Mbogori is the Executive Director of MWENGO, a network of NGO’s in East, Central and Southern Africa based in Harare
Greg Mill is the National Director of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) in Johannesburg
Jonathan Oppenheimer is a director of De Beers and a South African Institute for International Affairs National Council Member
Maria Ottaway is a Senior Associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington
About the Editor
Phoebe Griffith runs the Foreign Policy Centre’s ‘International Development In Foreign Policy’ Programme and specialises on issues of good governance and North-South relations. For the last two years she has co-ordinated the Centre’s Global Britons Programme. She is co-editor of ‘Reclaiming Britishness: living together after 11 September and the rise of the Right’ and co-author of ‘Migration, Integration and Citizenship: lesions from around the world. She has an MA in International Development from London University, where she specialised on the politics of microfinance and a Modern Languages BA from Oxford University. She can be reached at [email][email protected]