Issues of Governance, Security, and Development in Contemporary Africa

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Self-Determination and Its Ambiguous Application in the League of Nations' Mandate System by Cíntia Martins and Pedro Ponte e Sousa
Chapter 2: "Lions on the Move": Assessing Africa's Economic Challenges, Prospects, and Progress since Independence by Michael Rudolph Ten-Pow
Chapter 3: Polycentric and Centralized Federalism in Africa by Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde
Chapter 4: France and Francophone Africa: Can the New Scramble for Africa Put an End to an Enduring Zero-Sum Relationship? by Walters Tohnji Samah
Chapter 5: In(ter)dependence or New Dependence?: China's Infrastructure Development Model in Africa and Implications for Modernization and Modernity by Stephen M. Magu
Chapter 6: Climate Change and Food Security in the Lake Chad Region: Current Realities and Imperative Actions by Stanley Ehiane and Mabuyi Gumede
Chapter 7: Coup Makers as Leaders of Constitutional Change in Francophone Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Benin, Mali, and Guinea by Mohamed Saliou Camara
Chapter 8: From Coup Makers to Leaders of Democratic Change in Anglophone Africa: Case Studies in Civil-Military Relations in Nigeria and Ghana by Mohamed Saliou Camara
Chapter 9: Terrorism in Nigeria: The Examination of the Statements, Utterances, and Declarations of the Northern Islamic Elite to Justify the Fulanization and Islamization of Nigeria" by Priye S. Torulagha
Chapter 10: A Forgotten Threat?: Drug Trafficking, Security and Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa by Felix Kumah-Abiwu
Chapter 11: Climate Change, Human Security, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Rule of Law: African Union Quo Vadis? by Oliver C. Ruppel and Larissa Jane H. Houston
Chapter 12: Coronavirus Outbreak: A Test to Authenticity of the African Continental Free Trade Area Policy in the Era of Globalisation by Seun Bamidele
Chapter 13: European Military Conscription, Forced Labour, and Refugee Crisis in West Africa during World War I: Trends and Reactions by James Olusegun Adeyeri and Jackson A. Aluede
Chapter 14: Social Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Africa: Farmland Ownership among the Yoruba of Nigeria by Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde
Chapter 15: Assessing the Impact of "Enlarging People's Choices" for Kenyan Women through Political Participation, Equal Access to Justice and Socio-economic Development by Habiba Ibrahim and Stephen M. Magu
Chapter 16: Globalization and Violent Extremism in Africa: From Regional (In)security Complexes to a Global (In)security Complex by Lawrence Mhandara
Conclusion
About the Editors
About the Contributors