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Index

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Notes from the Author

Symbols & Acronyms

Key Terms

Introduction

An Overview of this Volume

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Part 1 : 21 century Africa
About Africa; Africa’s Strategic Importance; Africa Rising; State Security; Africa & the
m’zungu

Part 2 : Self-dependent Africans

Rwanda
About Rwanda; The Legacy of the Belgian Empire; Roads & People & Robust

Institutions; Umuganda; State Security

Ethiopia
About Ethiopia; The Legacy of Haile Selassi The Derg, Civil War, and the war
with Eritrea; Ethiopia & the TPLF; Ethiopia : 'Capital centric' development; Meles

Zenawi; The Growth & Transformation Plan;The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance

Dam; Ethnic Federalism and Political & Ethnic Instability; 2020 Ethiopia and the
TPLF ; Personal Memories of Ethiopia

Part 3 : The Africans ‘left behind’

Africa's Least Developed Countries (LDC) ; Africa's Low-Income Countries (LIC) ;
Africa's Low-Income Countries 'under stress' (LICUS) ; Africa's Fragile States; Africa's

Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) ; Africa's Income Inequality

Part 4 : Obstacles to progress

Challenges
Legacies of Colonial Rule; Diversity; 'Educational Achievement’; Very young

populations
Realities
Low Tax Revenue; External Obstacles to raising Tax Revenue; High Spending

requirements on Key Infrastructure; Debt; ‘Castration’ by the World Bank & IMF ;