@article{Adebola Rafiu_2014, title={African Union and the Developmental Transformation of Africa: Challenges, Achievement and Prospects}, volume={3}, url={http://ecsdev.org/ojs/index.php/ejsd/article/view/112}, DOI={10.14207/ejsd.2014.v3n1p67}, abstractNote={<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Over the past decades we have witnessed developmental growth across Asia and the rise<br />of emerging economies like China, India, Singapore, and Malaysia thus giving birth to the<br />epithet; the “Asian Tigers”, but Africa has suffered from relative economic stagnation and<br />poor development. This paper evaluates the activities of AU with respect to these<br />specificities in tackling past and present challenges facing the continent in the wave of<br />Afro-pessimists’ argument that Africa cannot claim its place in the 21st century. The paper<br />identified the challenges facing the AU in coordinating African developmental<br />transformation but recognised the fact that Africa of the end of the first decade of the 21st<br />century is not exactly the same as the Africa of the early sixties in term of developmental<br />improvement. The study recommended that AU focus on issues such as the high mobility<br />of African people, and its consequences in terms of citizenship rights; the issue of natural<br />resource management and food security; the recurrent problem of African integration with<br />a focus on the issue of common borders and most importantly, the issue of competing<br />regionalism especially on the polarisation of the continent along Anglo-francophone<br />delineation. The paper adopted qualitative methodology.<br /></span></span><div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em><br /></em></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Keywords</em>: Colonialism, Good Governance, Economic Growth, Decolonisation, Slavery,<br />Conflict Management</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #800000; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br /></span></strong></em></span></em></span></span></span></em></span></strong></span></div>}, number={1}, journal={European Journal of Sustainable Development}, author={Adebola Rafiu, BAKARE}, year={2014}, month={Feb.}, pages={67} }