Instability in Africa

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General Instability in Africa
Horacio Lázaro
Mind Map by Horacio Lázaro, updated more than 1 year ago
Horacio Lázaro
Created by Horacio Lázaro over 9 years ago
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Instability in Africa
  1. Africa could be "More"
    1. Resources in Africa if well managed are capable of providing for its entire population, hence the potentials for a more stable environment
    2. African communities abandoned their ways during the colonial period, and where they embraced the western models, with the ushering in of independence”,
      1. Leadership problem crept into the new states, as the new African leadership became the neo- colonialists.
        1. The liberators turned into oppressors of their own people
        2. CORRUPTION
          1. Domestic factors often range from “corrupt rulers, repression, a colonial legacy, “
            1. Africa is undergoing a complex process of multiple transformations, the solutions came from external support. International interests determine the course of events in the periphery.
              1. Also crucial to the peace building and political stability in Africa is the potential role of the Africans in the Diaspora -As result of unfavourable economic policies from the North, Africa continues to experience social dislocation and unrest.
              2. Africa is is Growing
                1. Economic development and challenges posed by poverty and diseases, trade volumes and foreign investments have increased over time.
                  1. The existing economic conditions based on western policy prescriptions also play a significant role in the deprivation of African populations
                    1. The Key to Development
                    2. External interests play a significant role in either contributing to the positive developments in Africa
                    3. Concecuences of Economic Conditions in Africa
                      1. Massive deregulation, privatisation, currency devaluation, social spending cuts, lower corporate taxes, export driven strategies, and removal of foreign investment restrictions
                        1. Health, education and infrastructure goes down.
                      2. Cuts in public expenditure under SAPs led to a drastic decline in control and prevention measures against diseases such as cholera, yellow fever and malaria that were once under control while new diseases remain a big challenge.
                        1. the cause is western based financial institutions whose interference through conditionality and economic policy prescriptions, contribute to the instability in Africa.
                          1. The political instability in Africa is related with the migration, and a fact of the bad policy is the lowly educated population.
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