Author : Emmanuel Ngombet 'Ditunga'
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Solutions to the challenges of sustainable development in Africa, such as the desalination of seawater to obtain freshwater in abundance for all countries; urban waste treatment, health, energy, forest conservation, agroecology; extraction, refining and transportation of ores, oil, gas; the civil air transport or the space industry.
Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 031648489X
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Author : Emmanuel Ngombet Dtunga Otsaro
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 249093113X
Young Africans are called to build their continent themselves, by drawing the consequences of all the mistakes of humanity's past, while consolidating the best. Are they and will they live up to short-term and long-term challenges of the continent ? All refined minerals at their extraction sites, limiting the environmental impact and minimizing production costs by the abundant presence of ecological and cheap electricity, the fresh water, derived from seawater desalination, transported to the arid lands of the interior of Africa, etc. Before it's too late, a citizen's initiative by the Civil Society, in 2020, can lead to the SYMBOLIC constitution of this African federal state The micro-states, which came from the sharing of the world in Berlin, have reached their limits and will disappear in favour of a single large whole; KONGELA! Gather what is fragmented and scattered. The United States of Africa - USOA / United African States - UAE
Author : Mark Maslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198704526
One of the fundamental questions of our existence is why we are so smart. There are lots of drawbacks to having a large brain, including the huge food intake needed to keep the organ running, the frequency with which it goes wrong, and our very high infant and mother mortality rates compared with other mammals, due to the difficulty of giving birth to offspring with very large heads. So why did evolution favour the brainy ape? This question has been widely debated among biological anthropologists, and in recent years, Maslin and his colleagues have pioneered a new theory that might just be the answer. Looking back to a crucial period some 1.9 million years ago, when brain capacity increased by as much as 80%, The Cradle of Humanity explores the implications of two adaptive responses by our hominin ancestors to rapid climatic changes - big jaws, and big brains. Maslin argues that the impact of changing landscapes and fluctuating climates that led to the appearance of intermittent freshwater lakes in East Africa may have played a key role in human evolution. Alongside the physical evidence of fossils and tools, he considers social theories of why a large, complex brain would have provided a major advantage when trying to survive in the constantly changing East African landscape.
Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303046590X
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.
Author : Emmanuel Ngombet 'Ditunga Otsaro'
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 2490931059
Whatever may be done by the Indo European, the melanized people's awakening seems inevitable. Just as the Jewish people, who feel really Jews within the land of Israel, the melanized human, will be able to recover his full expression only in ISIS and OSIRIS land where he can be his true self, that is, a light carrier and a builder of the humanity desirable future. African people are intended to build their continent themselves, and allow lessons to be learnt from the Humanity past, while consolidating what is best for them. The micro-states, resulting from the division of the world which took place in Berlin, have been pushed to their limits; they are disappearing to become the major geographic area in the world. Are the young Africans ready to meet short-term and long-term challenges of the continent ? Before it's too late, a citizen's initiative supported by the Civil Society may lead to the SYMBOLIC constitution of an embryo of African federal state : United States Of West Africa - USOWA Les États-Unis d'Afrique de l'Ouest - EUAO
Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538197812
Nigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
Author : Chammah J. Kaunda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1793630283
In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti’s Contribution, contributorsexplore John Samuel Mbiti’s contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality. Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti’s scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity. African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti’s scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories. This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.
Author : Mungwini, Pascah
Publisher : NISC (Pty) Ltd
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1920033505
Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent. Mungwini offers a critical reconstruction of indigenous Shona philosophy as an aspect of the African intellectual heritage held hostage by colonial modernity. In this comprehensive work, he lays bare the thoughts of the Shona, who are credited with the founding of the ancient Great Zimbabwe civilisation. Retracing the epistemic thread in the fabric of Shona culture and philosophy, he explores the assumptions that inform their thinking. The exchange of such knowledge is fundamental to the future of humanity.
Author : EMMANUEL NGOMBET.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
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ISBN : 9781091999930
