FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W220562888> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W220562888 startingPage "24" @default.
• W220562888 abstract "What United States President Barack Obama said in his July 2009 speech in Accra, Ghana, while remarkably accurate, was not new. In fact, his message confirms what some of us have been saying for decades, best summarized in his words as: future is up to Africans ... Development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing ... That is the change that can unlock Africa's potential ... a responsibility that can only be met by Africans. Africa's destiny lies in her own hands and the solutions to her myriad problems lie in Africa itself--not inside the corridors of the World Bank or the inner sanctum of the Oval Office or the Kremlin. Moreover, Africa's salvation lies in returning to and building upon its own indigenous institutions and heritage. Solutions for African Problems When Somalia imploded in 1991, African leaders blamed the ravages of Western imperialism and urgently appealed for international assistance. The UN Security Council, in Resolution 751, authorized the establishment of the United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM). Due to the delayed arrival of peacekeepers and armed looting of relief food supplies, what began as a minor peacekeeping operation led to a deployment of 30,000 US troops to oversee and protect international humanitarian operations under the code name Operation Restore Hope. With this objective, US Marines and Rangers landed on Mogadishu beaches on December 9, 1992. But the mission, costing over US$3.5 billion, went awry. Following the deaths of 18 US Rangers, the United States pulled out of Somalia in 1993, and the United Nations followed a year later. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That disaster led me to coin the expression solutions for African problems, which derives from two unfortunate phenomena. The first is the unnerving propensity of African leaders to seek foreign solutions to every crisis rather than look inside Africa for them. Second, though noble and well-intentioned, foreign solutions often do not fit Africa's unique political and socio-cultural topography and have thus failed. Furthermore, foreign solutions often prove financially costly and take a great deal of time to implement. Unfortunately, people have hijacked and misused the phrase solutions for African problems. In the West, some interpreted it to mean that Africans needed no Western help and would solve their own problems themselves. In Africa itself, some leaders understood the expression to mean solutions crafted in Africa by African leaders or organization such as the African Union, rather than in Washington. However, both misinterpreted the true meaning. The real African solution is one rooted in African culture, tradition, and heritage, but not cut off from the rest of the world. In law, Western jurisprudence focuses on punishment for the guilty. In contrast, the African notion of justice mandates restitution, forgiveness, and reconciliation to restore social harmony. Africans believe that when two people fight, the entire village is affected. Therefore, conflict resolution requires not just a settlement between the two disputants but also an effort to repair frayed social relationships. For example, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established after the dismantling of apartheid in 1994, based itself on this African tradition. If every white person, guilty of apartheid crimes, received punishment according to the Western notion of justice, few whites would remain in South Africa. Thankfully, the nation still enjoys considerable racial diversity. In Rwanda, after the 1994 genocide which saw the slaughter of more than 800,000 Tutsis, the government found that the formal court system would never be able to try the 100,000 plus suspects. Such a process would have taken at least two centuries. To restore peace, reconciliation, and justice, the government turned to the traditional courts--gacaca. …" @default.
• W220562888 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W220562888 creator A5034677965 @default.
• W220562888 date "2009-09-22" @default.
• W220562888 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W220562888 title "An African Solution Solving the Crisis of Failed States: George B.N. Ayittey Is a Distinguished Economist at American University and President of the Free Africa Foundation. He Is the Author of Africa Unchained (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005) and Indigenous African Institutions (Transnational Publishers, 2006)" @default.
• W220562888 hasPublicationYear "2009" @default.
• W220562888 type Work @default.
• W220562888 sameAs 220562888 @default.
• W220562888 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W220562888 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W220562888 hasAuthorship W220562888A5034677965 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C121332964 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C1276947 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C183761623 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C18903297 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C2779872411 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C2780570456 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C44761211 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C55958113 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C86803240 @default.
• W220562888 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C121332964 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C1276947 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C144024400 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C17744445 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C183761623 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C18903297 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C199539241 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C2779872411 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C2780570456 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C44761211 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C55958113 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C86803240 @default.
• W220562888 hasConceptScore W220562888C94625758 @default.
• W220562888 hasIssue "3" @default.
• W220562888 hasLocation W2205628881 @default.
• W220562888 hasOpenAccess W220562888 @default.
• W220562888 hasPrimaryLocation W2205628881 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W1489907506 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W1605315166 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W185207414 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W1998892907 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2072583608 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2074599861 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2101429727 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2289295989 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2320418072 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W264880444 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2725471441 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2993319473 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W3121857422 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W316223407 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W388407334 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W847771869 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W848116146 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W851659436 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W2185482964 @default.
• W220562888 hasRelatedWork W767742928 @default.
• W220562888 hasVolume "31" @default.
• W220562888 isParatext "false" @default.
• W220562888 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W220562888 magId "220562888" @default.
• W220562888 workType "article" @default.