African civilization in the 21st century /editors, Tseggai Isaac and Andrew Targowski (Western Michigan University, MI, US and others).

Includes bibliographies and index.

AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY; AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; REFERENCES; Chapter 1: THE CIVILIZATION APPROACH TO ANALYTICAL ORTHODOXY: SOLUTION FOR OR CONVEYER OF POLITICAL DECAY TO AFRICA{607}S POST-COLONIAL STRUGGLES IN THE 21STCENTURY?; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE IMPACT OF WESTERN AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS ON AFRICA AND THE THIRD WORLD; THE ANALYTICAL CONFLICT OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION; AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS FROM THE HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE.

AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS AND THEIR CITIESRECONSIDERING THE ROSTER OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: MAKING THE CASE FOR ETHIOPIAN CIVILIZATION; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING ETHIOPIAN CIVILIZATION; THE BOUNDARIES OF ETHIOPIAN CIVILIZATION; RESURRECTION OF THE STATE, CULTURE, AND LITERATURE; STRUGGLE FOR THE SURVIVAL OF ETHIOPIAN CIVILIZATION; ETHIOPIAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21STCENTURY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: THE CIVILIZATION INDEX AND AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; A COMPOSITE DEFINITION OF CIVILIZATION.

THE AFRICAN CIVILIZATION AMONG OTHER CIVILIZATIONSEXAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATIONS; THE CIVILIZATION INDEX AND AFRICAN CIVILIZATION; TOWARDS WISE AFRICAN CIVILIZATION; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6: THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IN LIGHT OF THE 21ST CENTURY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PARADIGMS: SHIFTING OR OTHERWISE, STATIC IN AFRICA; THE TENSION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION; THE AFRICAN PERCEPTION AND ORIENTATION OF RELIGION; THE ARAB PERCEPTION OF AFRICA: THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION; THE EUROPEAN PERCEPTION OF AFRICA:THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION.

THE AFRICAN PARADIGMS: RELIGIOUS ORIENTATIONAND THE QUEST FOR WISDOM IN THE 21STCENTURYTHE ARAB PARADIGM-RELIGION ORIENTED IN AFRICAIN THE 21STCENTURY; THE EUROPEAN PARADIGM-RELIGION ORIENTED IN AFRICAIN THE 21STCENTURY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IN AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; EDUCATION -- THE MOST IMPORTANT AND PROMISING CHALLENGE; AFRICAN EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION; THE NATIVE PRIMARY STAGE OF LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE AT THE COMMUNITARIAN INTERACTIVE STAGE; THE PLEBEIAN DYNAMIC STAGE.

This book took the task of conceptualizing the change of African Civilization in the 21st century. It examines African Civilization and its encounters in view of the last 500 years of European and American slavery, exploitation and diplomatic paralysis. In post-colonial Africa (1960-2014), foreign powers have more influence on Africa. However, Africa cannot claim to have the diplomatic prestige to influence European, American or Asian powers. The overwhelming challenges that Africa has been experiencing did attract global reaction ranging from military intervention, diplomatic push or pull (ra.

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