TY - BOOK AU - Toyin Falola, AU - Falola,Toyin AU - Mbah,Emmanuel M. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Contemporary Africa: challenges and opportunities T2 - African Histories and Modernities SN - 9781137444134 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Science KW - Science, general N2 - 60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism UR - https://eresourcesptsl.ukm.remotexs.co/user/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137444134 ER -