Imagining the United States of Africa

E. Ike Udogu is professor of African, comparative, and international politics at Appalachian State University.

• Chapter 1: The Issue of Nationalism and Political Integration in Africa’s Unification Project: An Overview, E. Ike UdoguChapter 2: The Challenge of Corruption Control in Africa, John Mukum Mbaku, Esq. Chapter 3: Reflection on Capitalism and Liberal Globalization: Lessons for a Proposed UnionGovernment, Tukumbi Lumumba-KasongoChapter 4: Political Ethnicity and Conflict Management in an Integrated Continent, E. Ike UdoguChapter 5: ICT Penetration and Functions of Government and Society in Fostering Regional Power Hubs Critical for Sustaining Development in Africa, Kwesi A. TandohChapter 6: Social Democracy and Its Efficacy in a United Africa, George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Udogu’s book helps to understand better the major Africa’s carcinogenic phenomena that prevent the formation of a United States of Africa with a view to providing relative solutions. Well discussed, researched and written by five scholars of international repute, Imagining the United States of Africa: Discourses on the way Forward, made up of six chapters, is a critical examination of such contemporary and polemic issues in Africa as ‘economic integration,’ ‘social and political integration,’ ‘national integration,’ ‘technology integration,’ ‘corruption,’ ‘liberal globalization,’ ‘leadership,’ and it may rank among the best books about Africa. This book could be described as the light, the life, the way and the future for all Pan-Africanists. It is not a book of dream and hope, but action as there is ‘ongoing dialogue concerning the matter of Africa’s political and economic union in this millennium.’ The terms used by Udogu, discourses on the way forward show that Africans from inside and outside the continent have attained a point of no return. . . .The book is well structured, readable, newsworthy, and interesting in the sense that it provides history, economics, law, political science, and international relations students as well as researchers and all Pan-Africanists with not only the necessary reading material for the effective understanding of the nature of Africa’s major concerns in the 21st century.