the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Af-rica (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed … deficits in good government in many African countries, the EU bears responsibility for the fragile state of many African … economies. The self-interested trade policies of the EU and other world powers contribute to poverty and unsatisfactory …

that they are an immigration country. The EU commis-sion endorses a limited and temporarily restricted immigration of … between the social classes. In addition, the EU favours the admission of high skilled labour, which tends to strengthen the … 'brain drain' from Africa even more, while mil-lions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …

Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a partnership on eye-level. However, many Africans suspect the EU of double …In view of the global run on African resources the EU is at pains to conclude Economic Partnership Programs with … ECOWAS EPAs as example, analyses reveal that tensions are due to both the gap between discourse and practice of EU trade and …

nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the …, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa … National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199286751, 448 pages …

conditionality of aid, which had been emphasised as corner stone of the joint EU-Africa strategy. Recent empirical findings on the … linkage between democratization and economic performance in Western Africa are challenged because of lack of viable data. It …

academic analyses on “weak” or “failing states” in Africa and elsewhere. However, the concentration on externally induced … static cultural factors as custom, tradition or ethnicity, often said to be barriers to economic growth in Africa, have been … invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa …

Ghana’s 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception …