Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10082
Ö. Sari, Selma Meydan Uygur, Ali Abdourahmane
{"title":"The Residents of The Comoros and Sustainable Tourism","authors":"Ö. Sari, Selma Meydan Uygur, Ali Abdourahmane","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10082","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sustainable tourism development in island destinations is closely linked to the positive attitude of the local people. And the full participatory approach of the islanders depends on the compatibility of the desired benefits with the perceived benefits, in line with the scope of social change theory. In this respect, this study was conducted in the Comoros, where no research on sustainable tourism has been carried out before although the attractive physical environment draws a significant number of visitors. The study was conducted with multiple research methods. First, a document review of visitor data was done to determine the tourism potential of the Comoros. Then, survey statements were compiled from the relevant literature and 504 local people were surveyed to measure their perception of sustainable tourism. Explanatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, independent t-test and variance analysis were performed in accordance with the research problematic regarding the data obtained. The analysis results show that all dimensions are interrelated and that the environmental dimension is the most important. While there was no significant difference in age and gender characteristics and perceptions of sustainable tourism, it was determined that there was a significant difference in monthly income, education level, city of residence (island) working status sector of employment and marital status of the participants and their perceptions.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"256 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72494285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10083
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey
{"title":"Examining the Interaction of Development Investment and the Media in China’s Image-Building in Africa from below","authors":"Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article uses Nigeria to explore the interplay of China’s economic investments and the media as image-building instruments of Nigerians’ perception of China. Thus, the purpose is to investigate whether China’s development assistance has shaped the desired outcome—Nigerian public support of China—and to explore the media’s role in this process. How effective are China’s economic and infrastructural investments as strategies for influencing a positive public image in Nigeria? How can visibility—the amount of media coverage and exposure—of China’s investments in Nigeria shape favourable Nigerian public support? Utilising a range of datasets and a longitudinal analysis, I find that Chinese investments may improve Nigeria’s economic growth and people’s standard of living, but are insufficient to build a positive public image of China. However, China could create a long-lasting favourable public image from its investments if the programmes were supported with effective media representation that made them more visible through the public’s news sources. I employed a qualitative research technique and rested the theoretical argument on mediated public diplomacy.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"13 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72427396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00014
Chibuike Victor Obikaeze, V. Iwuoha, J. Odionye, Ndifreke S. Umo-Udo
{"title":"Macroeconomic Policies and Foreign Capital Inflows in Nigeria","authors":"Chibuike Victor Obikaeze, V. Iwuoha, J. Odionye, Ndifreke S. Umo-Udo","doi":"10.1163/09744061-tat00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-tat00014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The growth of manufacturing sector output in Nigeria is currently sluggish, if not stagnant, despite massive inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as well as macroeconomic policies initiated by successive Nigerian governments. The study investigated how macroeconomic policies and FDI inflows have impacted on the manufacturing sector in Nigeria. The Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test was adopted to determine the stationary properties of the data, and the order of integration of the variables was tested using the Johansen cointegration test. The impact and interactions of macroeconomic policies on the manufacturing sector are less understood and shallow in the extant literature. The government’s macroeconomic policies encourage FDI in the communications and oil sector with a negative impact on the manufacturing sector. This is implicated in inadequate capital investments and technological diffusion. Nonetheless, the study shifts the paradigm in popular arguments that FDI is imperialistic, hence universally exploitative, to a new hypothesis that the failure of the manufacturing sector to tap into FDI and yield desirable growth output is linked to less viable globally competitive macroeconomic policy frameworks in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that the Nigerian government should review its macroeconomic policies, particularly the monetary and exchange rate, and draw up proactive human capital development plans that can directly contribute to the development of the productive capacity of the country’s population.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91213091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10095
R. Anand
{"title":"Migration in West Africa , by Joseph Kofi Teye (ed.)","authors":"R. Anand","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91084462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10093
P. Haokip
{"title":"Revisiting EU–Africa Relations in a Changing World , by Valeria Fargion and Mamoudou Gazibo eds.","authors":"P. Haokip","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73165924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10070
U. Ajetunmobi
{"title":"Public Policies on Radio Broadcasting in Nigeria, 1956–2006 , by Akin Akingbulu","authors":"U. Ajetunmobi","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82325073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10019
K. Ansari
{"title":"Transnational Islam: Circulation of Religious Ideas, Actors and Practices between Niger and Nigeria , by Elodie Apard, ed.","authors":"K. Ansari","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84277423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00011
M. Venkataraman, R. Vignesh
{"title":"The China Factor in Africa’s Path to Liberal Democracy","authors":"M. Venkataraman, R. Vignesh","doi":"10.1163/09744061-tat00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-tat00011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores whether China’s political and economic relations with African countries constitute a factor in undermining Africa’s path to liberal democracy or not. It addresses the question of why democratic values like human rights could not be sustained in some African countries. Along this line, could China’s economic influence harm the democratisation of the African continent? The argument of this article is that differing perceptions of democracy coupled with China’s entry in Africa as an alternative to the West have provided a context for several African countries to elude the liberal democratic path. The article concludes that, in providing them with economic support, China has introduced concepts of an alternative model of government to several African countries that had initially embraced liberal democracy. China’s close relations with Africa thus have been a game-changer for the post-Cold War liberal order.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78451885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Africa ReviewPub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00012
N. Y. Oppong
{"title":"Privatisation Policy and the Ghanaian Gold Mining Industry","authors":"N. Y. Oppong","doi":"10.1163/09744061-tat00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-tat00012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) help ailing developing economies to address their debts and economic crises. To receive this help, however, these international financial institutions (IFI s) have in the past demanded reforms, termed Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP). One of the SAP policies has been the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOE s), which Ghana embraced and implemented from 1983. This article evaluates Ghana’s privatisation of the Ghanaian gold mining industry (the second-largest foreign-exchange earner and major beneficiary of the policy). Using predominantly academic and popular literature, data from the Ghana Chamber of Mines and insider accounts, this study reveals that the policy has resulted in benefits (organisational and national gains) and costs (social and national costs). The article calls on the World Bank/IMF and the gold mining industry to renew their commitment to the recognition of the social and environmental benefits to the citizens.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80838107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}