Sumerianz Journal of Social Science
Online ISSN: 2616-8693
Print ISSN: 2617-1716
Quarterly Published (4 Issues Per Year)
Journal Website: https://www.sumerianz.com/?ic=journal-home&journal=28Archive
Volume 2 Issue 9 (2019)
Limits of External Reliance for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors : Iwara Iwara Eno ; Dickson Emmanuel Ekpe
Abstract:This paper addresses itself to the limits of external reliance for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper noted that the initial independence expectation that the post independence period would be linked with real economic freedom from oppression, and the people connected with public wealth, has continued to be a mirage. The paper articulates the point that the mainstream advocates’ believe in the principle of comparative advantage that has structured state economic behaviour and specialization of the roles of poor countries, rather, promotes western incursions in the critical sectors of development in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper argues that the continued reliance on external ideas, technology, and development policies imposes limits on the quest for sustainable development in sub-Saharan African countries. Finally, the paper delivers the thinking that sub-Saharan African countries should begin to make reasonable budgets for research and development (R&D) to enhance intellectual probity on development challenges, and for the creation of strategic socio-economic policies for sustainable development in Sub-Saharan African countries.
Pages: 164-169
Urban Growth and Renewal in Nigeria: The Potency of Public Private Partnership
Authors : AJIBADE Olalekan Eyitayo ; SALAKO Oluwaseun Adewale
Abstract:Urban growth, development and renewal are integral part of the global focus on sustainable development in every nation. Without achieving a high level of urbanization, a Nation cannot claim to have achieved development. The study focuses on the examining the possibilities of enhancing urban growth and renewal through the public private partnership initiative. The study relied on secondary sources of data collection. The study was able to find out that the actuality of the private partnership initiative towards urban growth are usually endangered by the general climate of poor commitment, governance, policy formulation, execution gaps and disconnection as well as deliberate neglect and nonchalance created by the Nigerian government.
Pages: 160-163
Colonial and Post Colonial Migrations and le vivre ensemble in the Cameroon Grassfields
Authors : Joseph Lon NFI
Abstract:This study attempts an analyses of the movement of peoples and communities between the Anglophone (Bamenda) and Francophone (Bamileke) parts of the Cameroon Grassfields following the Anglo-French partition of Cameroon in 1916. The objective is to identify the reasons for these within the Grassfields movements, identify the changing patterns of the movements and the impact on Grassfields solidarity and le vivre ensemble. Drawing largely from primary and secondary sources and using a chronological cum thematic approach in the presentation of the data, the article concludes that political and economic exigencies provoked the movement of populations and that these Grassfields people maintained their solidarity and cultural uniformity despite the linguistic and colonial boundary imposed by the Europeans between the North West and West Regions of Cameroon that constitute the Grassfields. This study therefore sustains the argument that the North West and West Regions of Cameroon are more united historically and culturally than is the South West and North West Regions that constitute Anglophone Cameroon as the extremists of the "Anglophone Problem" may claim.
Pages: 155-159