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Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments Acronyms Africa at the Crossroads: Introduction by John Mukum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena Africa at the Crossroads of Globalization by Emmanuel Nnadozie Globalization and Popular Disenchantment in Africa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh A Tale of Three Images: Globalization, Marginalization, and the Sovereignty of the African Nation-State by Paul L. Ebioze Idahosa Regionalism and Regional Cooperation in Africa: New Century Challenges and Prospects by Paul-Henri Bischoff The New East African Union: A Defense and Security Organ as the Missing Link by P. Godfrey Okoth From OAU to African Union: Africa's Giant Step Towards Continental Unity by Suresh Chandra Saxena Fighting Poverty and Deprivation in Africa: The Continuing Struggle by John Mukum Mbaku Internet Connectivity and Development in Africa: Look Before You "Leapfrog" by Lyombe S. Eko Decentralization and Privatization ofInfrastructure by Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Wilson S. K. Wasike Beyond Rhetoric: Peacekeeping in Africa in the Millennium by Korwa G. Adar Cultural Diversity and the Search for Lasting Peace in Africa; Consociational Democracy Revisited by Ufo Okeke Uzodike State Repair and Democratic Development in Africa by 'Kunle Amuwo Ethnicity, Agonism of Difference and National Imagining in Post-Colonial Africa by Nantang Jua The Struggle for Stability in Nigeria's Contemporary Politics (1990-1999) and the Lessons for the Fourth Republic by E. Ike Udogu Imperialism and Militarialisme in Africa: The Political Economy of French Arms Sales and Military Intervention, 1960-1890 by Immanuel Tatah Mentan Selected Bibliography Index