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Where there's no Vision the People Perish - Reflections on the African Renaissance

By Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane, Hawke Research Institute, Working Papers Series, 2001. The ‘African renaissance’ is one of the latest buzzwords to come out of South Africa, and it now plays an important part in ANC policy. The phrase suggests that Africans are... |+| read article

The South African African Renaissance Debate - A Critique

By Eddy T. Maloka, Africa Institute of South Africa. The “African Renaissance”, as a concept, has captured the imagination of many South Africans. A week hardly goes by without a talk or debate of some sort on this in the radios, television, newspaper or... |+| read article

The Concept of the African Renaissance as a Force Multiplier to Ensure Lasting Peace and Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Col A.H. Louw, Research Paper, Executive National Security Programme 02/2000, South African National Defence College, 17 October 2000. However noble the objectives of the “New African Initiative” may appear to be, the implementation of this ambitious plan... |+| read article

The African Renaissance - Myth, Vital Lie, or Mobilising Tool?

By Ian Liebenberg (HSRC), African Security Review Vol 7, No. 3, 1998. During the past year or the term 'African renaissance'' has become part of the newspeak of the 'new' South Africa. What was to be an ad hoc political innovation is slowly becoming part of... |+| read article

African Renaissance: A Northbound Gaze

By Prof M B Ramose, Formerly Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Brabant, Tilburg, Netherlands, currently Department of Philosophy, Unisa. In: Politeia Vol 19 No 3 2000, pp. 47-62. The present article argues that at best the 'renaissance' has... |+| read article

African Renaissance: A Monochrome or Rainbow Vision?

By Prof. Willem van Vuuren, Department of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. This paper tries to clarify the concept of an African Renaissance with reference to its roots in the pioneering Africanist-Charterist debate on African... |+| read article

Boundaries for an African Renaissance - Reshaping the continent's political geography

By Richard Griggs, Track Two, Vol. 6 No. 2 August 1997, Centre for Conflict Resolution. Africa's "Achilles' heel" is its boundaries, argues Richard Griggs - blocking development and perpetuating conflict. Here he calls for a new era of... |+| read article

Phaphama iAfrika!: The African Renaissance and Corparate South Africa

By Francis Korgnegay and Chris Landsberg. In: African Security Review Volume 7 No 4 1998. It is conceivable that, during the age of an ‘African renaissance’ — as espoused by South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki — the interaction between established... |+| read article

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