Editorial

The dynamics of diversity and the massive endowment of natural resources in Africa make it a worthwhile and strategic region for scientific investigation. This investigation becomes very necessary in light of how the western media have always labeled Africa as a sore continent characterized by violence, diseases, bad governance, poor service delivery, weak political will and institutions, poverty, inequality, climate change, and other related problems. Although these problems have generated public and intellectual discussions within and outside Africa, the suggested solutions appear to be western ideology-laden. In other words, the nature of these solutions is not evolving towards reflecting efforts at genuinely transforming or improving Africa. This is so because the democracy that seems to renew hope for Africa's development has largely remained unpopular in some African states. This state of affairs was a factor in the thinking of Afrocentric solutions to African problems because all available facts point out that more Africans live in fully or partially authoritarian states today than at most points in the last two decades.