STRENGTH AND LIMITATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

Strength and Limitation of Independence in Contemporary Africa

Strength and Limitation of Independence in Contemporary Africa

Introduction

Independence

The term independence is usually associated with a sovereign and independent country or a geographical region.. However, its meaning is not purely political and in many cases can also be understood as an attribute applies to a person on an institution, even on an animal. Independence is, in other words, no dependency. Thus understood, the term means the ability to make decisions independently and free. (Shue, 2000, 44)

Normally, the term independence is related to political phenomena and that it is also understood as the ability of a country, region or any community to govern well and set aside any domain or guardianship that can come from another region or entity political.

Africa has always been a land of challenges. News drawing attention to the tense situation regularly, and sometimes dramatic, tends to forget this other Africa, the one that innovates and goes forward. Today's challenges are, however, contrasting faces: economic growth, fight against poverty, government reinvention, redesign of the institutional apparatus, democracy, citizenship, participation in major planetary movements. (Some, 2008, 9)

Discussion

The independence of Africa

After completion of the Second World War, European countries came to realize that they are no longer capable of holding their own, as they say the overseas colonies. First, the boundaries of these countries remained the same, which they found the Europeans at the time of distribution in Africa in the late 19th century. (Shorter, 2009, 59)

But over time, these countries have war, which caused most people was to separate areas to gain independence and build their own, independent, state. However, there were other reasons. For example, in some countries between individual groups of a struggle for power, as a result, there came to power, or military dictatorship was installed. The 60 are etched in the memory of Africans as those for which Africa has rested its independence.

These were years of great fervor in Africa. From one country to another, the Africans applauded, sang and danced to celebrate the liberation of their countries and their peoples. These are the years when African thought they saw down the chains of slavery and colonization. In the popular imagination in Africa, the colonizers had finally packed his bags and placed in the hands of Africans, Africa. The years have passed since those days of euphoria. And today, more than half a century later, it is sad and deplorable that this freedom is so widely celebrated, in fact, under control of the colonizers yesterday. (Shark, 2007, 43)

The explanation is simple: Originally, the creation of African states did not meet our requirements and cultural ethnographic distribution has only set the stage for future manipulation and prolonged. The separation of our states is the result of a long reflection centers and specialized institutes of the past in the light of this evolution. Indeed, Africa is not aware that the changing world is primarily a result of the planning centers of research ...