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Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa

Blueprints for the Midcentury

By: Philip C. Aka

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Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa

Blueprints for the Midcentury

By: Philip C. Aka

This book addresses the unique challenges faced by Africa regarding peaceful self-determination. Unlike other regions, Africa has seen limited success in nonviolent self-determination campaigns. Since 1989, only three African nations - Namibia, Eritrea, and South Sudan - have joined the UN after enduring prolonged and violent struggles for independence. In a world characterized by constant change, border alterations typically require armed conflicts in postcolonial Africa. In response to this disconcerting trend, the book offers pragmatic blueprints for achieving peace, emphasizing constitutional approaches to navigate the delicate balance between sovereignty and self-determination. The work delves into the complexities of five self-determination struggles spanning three African countries, providing valuable insights into the challenges faced. It distils six critical lessons from these case studies and presents fourteen blueprint proposals tailored to address the unique dynamics of postcolonial Africa, where reconciling sovereignty and self-determination remains a pressing concern.

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Springer Nature

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3031481313

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Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations

Building the Record of a Moral Superpower

By: Philip Aka

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Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations

Building the Record of a Moral Superpower

By: Philip Aka

This book is a broad-ranging argument for thorough reforms at home and abroad in Nigeria as the only antidote to the nation-building dilemmas Nigeria confronts in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Because of its enormous material and human endowments, Nigeria is dubbed the “Giant of Africa.” It is a moniker many of its leaders take seriously. Yet, Nigeria is a state rife with instability, some of it periodically erupting into violence. Given still-ongoing national security challenges in the land that notoriously includes a bloody religion-oriented terrorism, the Fourth Republic since 1999, the longest period of continuous democratic rule since independence—key to the timeline of this book—has not been insulated from the spell of instability. The main argument of this work is that internationally agreed-upon ethical standards embedded in human rights can save Nigeria. This book is a methodologically and theoretically-grounded, seminal discourse on Nigerian foreign relations that spells out the human rights or lack thereof in those relations, including underlying and impinging domestic forces. This work is set around six issues of application embedded in a temple of Nigeria’s human rights foreign policy, comprising two steps and four pillars: reconstructed national interest, increased human rights at home, redesigned peacekeeping, reshaped foreign policy machinery, increased bilateralism in foreign relations, and the use of ECOWAS as human rights tool. Although focused on the period since independence, for proper understanding of events from the past that shape the current patterns of politics in the land, this book also embodies a historical background chapter that overviews the pre-colonial and colonial eras.

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Lexington Books

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1498533566

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Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

By: Philip C. Aka

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Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

By: Philip C. Aka

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia offers a unique new perspective to longstanding debates on healthcare reforms in Bosnia. In this penetrating analysis, Philip C. Aka argues that twenty-five years after the ethnic war that shook Bosnia and Herzegovina to its foundations, healthcare reforms are a function of preventive medicine, defined as genetic counselling, backed by tobacco and alcohol control. At its core, the book offers a fresh examination of healthcare reforms in Bosnia set in the multidisciplinary field of bioethics, supplemented by comparative health studies, and comparative human rights. By offering an extensive list of electronically accessible literature on healthcare accessible in the public domain, Aka delivers an exemplar of research possibilities in the Information Age.

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146

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Springer Nature

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9811579873

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Healthcare and Economic Restructuring

Nigeria in Comparative Perspective

By: Philip C. Aka,Joseph Abiodun Balogun

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Healthcare and Economic Restructuring

Nigeria in Comparative Perspective

By: Philip C. Aka,Joseph Abiodun Balogun

This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world. Specifically, the issue this book tackles revolves around how to repair Nigeria’s dysfunctional healthcare system through the medium of a healthier economy that provides sufficient revenue to meet the healthcare needs of citizens.

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9811695431

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Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Ten Measured Steps into the Future

By: Philip C. Aka,Joseph Abiodun Balogun

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Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Ten Measured Steps into the Future

By: Philip C. Aka,Joseph Abiodun Balogun

Persons living with disabilities (PLWDs) are imbued with inalienable human rights and have talents and potential that would aid in the Nigerian government’s unceasing pursuit of economic development. However, under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic since 1999, implementation of disability laws has been lethargic. In Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Ten Measured Steps into the Future, Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun explore measures for improving the capacity of the Nigerian national government to implement regional and global treaties related to disability that are human rights-centric. They emphasize the need for a human rights focus and for the Nigerian government to implement laws that support the potential of PLWDs, including their contributions to socioeconomic development.

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225

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666914185

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Sea Kayaking

A Guide for Sea Canoeists

By: Philip Woodhouse

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Sea Kayaking

A Guide for Sea Canoeists

By: Philip Woodhouse

In Sea Kayaking, , comprehensive guide for those who travel the open waters in the Southern Hemisphere, Philip Woodhouse, Australian paddler and Royal Australian Air Force veteran, shares his years of experience, technical training, and military teaching skills. What began as a personal reference was soon developed as a training manual, recommended by the Victorian Sea Kayak Club to its membersand East Coast Kayaking to their patrons and Australian Canoeing students. Sea Kayaking covers boat design, kit requirements, paddling skills, health and well-being, meteorology, the ocean environment, navigation, communications, conservation andminimal-impact camping, conservation, seamanship, electrical bilge pumps, solar panels, light sources, boat repairs, leadership, risk management, basic safety and survival strategies , as well as a brief overview about the history and various types of canoeing.. There is also a comprehensive glossary to assist the reader in understanding the terms and concepts discussed in the main text. Woodhouses work differs from most manuals about sea kayaking in that it is written from the perspective of someone who paddles the Southern Hemisphere. As such, the major differences between the two hemispheresweather patterns, navigation, laws, and terminologyare discussed, as well as compared to their Northern Hemisphere counterparts. In the end, paddling skills are paddling skills, hypothermia is hypothermia, and twenty-five-knot winds are twenty-five-knot winds. A three-metre tidal range can still produce a long haul across mud flats when the tide is outand landing through two-metre surf is still scary (though a lot of fun), no matter where you paddle.

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BalboaPress

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1452508496

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Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen

Alternative Futures Outside the EU

By: Philip C. Aka

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Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen

Alternative Futures Outside the EU

By: Philip C. Aka

For long, the narrative in constitutional law, public policy, and statecraft is that Bosnia must join the EU, as a matter of economic development and nation building. This book introduces another dimension to the narrative, oversighted, without which the story remains one-dimensional, rather than balanced. That missing element in the literature this study integrates is a reformed Bosnian state, along the lines proposed in this book, that operates outside the EU. The setting of the work within the fields of knowledge of comparative constitutional law, and public choice theory provides added value to the reader, including students, scholars, policy makers, and lay persons.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538159910

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The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa

Evidence from Ghana

By: Philip C. Aka,Hassan Wahab,Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

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The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa

Evidence from Ghana

By: Philip C. Aka,Hassan Wahab,Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh

The global rise in pandemics, most recently COVID-19, and other health challenges, some of which are due to climate change, have imposed significant challenges on the healthcare systems in economies around the world. Thus, this book deals with an issue that is very timely and relevant, not just in Africa but globally. It critically assesses healthcare reforms in Ghana under the Fourth Republic, since 1993. Although it focuses on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme of 2003, the book instructively goes beyond this program. The book argues that, although Ghana is a bellwether of healthcare reforms in Africa, its healthcare initiatives are still far from the service haven of healthcare as a human right. Themes that animate the book’s argument include the need to translate human rights law, such as the right to health, into practical policies that work for ordinary citizens. Key highlights of the book include an increased accent on health as a human right, emphasis on comparative analysis in healthcare studies, and the formulation of a four-hallmark framework, embedded in economics, law, politics, and human rights, to act as a guide for assessment of healthcare reforms in Africa in particular, and Ghana more specifically. Using Ghana as a case study and analytical window into the world, the book offers a valuable and timely resource for academics, students and policymakers across the disciplines of development and healthcare economics, law, public policy, political science, sociology, and African and Caribbean studies, as well as in various fields in health science.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000580687

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Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

By: Philip C. Aka

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Palgrave Macmillan

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9811579865

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Improving Disability Laws Under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Ten Measured Steps Into the Future

By: Philip Chukwuma Aka,Joseph A. Balogun

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Improving Disability Laws Under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Ten Measured Steps Into the Future

By: Philip Chukwuma Aka,Joseph A. Balogun

Persons living with disabilities (PLWDs) are imbued with inalienable human rights and have talents and potential that would aid in the Nigerian government's unceasing pursuit of economic development. However, under Nigeria's Fourth Republic since 1999, implementation of disability laws has been lethargic. In Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Ten Measured Steps into the Future, Philip C. Aka and Joseph A. Balogun explore measures for improving the capacity of the Nigerian national government to implement regional and global treaties related to disability that are human rights-centric. They emphasize the need for a human rights focus and for the Nigerian government to implement laws that support the potential of PLWDs, including their contributions to socioeconomic development.

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1666914177

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Book's by Philip C. Aka

Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa

Navigating the Tension Between Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Postcolonial Africa

Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations

Human Rights in Nigeria's External Relations

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

Healthcare and Economic Restructuring

Healthcare and Economic Restructuring

Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Sea Kayaking

Sea Kayaking

Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen

Bosnia as Civic State and Global Citizen

The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa

The Political Economy of Universal Healthcare in Africa

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia

Improving Disability Laws Under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

Improving Disability Laws Under Nigeria's Fourth Republic

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