Africa: Development Challenges and Possibilities by Amadu Jacky Kaba

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Africa: Development Challenges and Possibilities examines the positive achievements that are
being experienced on the continent. In examining Africa’s development paradoxes, one can point
to any number of examples illustrating challenges facing the people on the continent. However,
there are now many examples of real progress on the ground such as: increase in life
expectancy; decreasing infant mortality rates and death rates; and increase in Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), and GDP per capita. The book examines the impact of Islam and Christianity in
Africa; population growth, environment and the challenge to food production; the impact of the
African diaspora; and the role of the African Union in Africa’s development.

Amadu Jacky Kaba is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Seton Hall University. Prior to
returning to Seton Hall University in 2005, he worked with the late renowned political scientist,
Professor Ali A. Mazrui (Post-Doctoral Fellowship), teaching and conducting research in the Social
Sciences both at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York, from July 2002 to June 30, 2005. He is the author over 70 scholarly publications,
including over 50 full-length peer reviewed scholarly journal articles and four books. He earned
all of his degrees from Seton Hall University: B.A. in Political Science in 1997; Master’s degree in
Public Administration (MPA) in 1998; and Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership, Management and
Policy in May 2002.

ISBN: 978-1-943533-05-3 Ι Published 2016 | Pan-African University Press