Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Journal or Book Title
Geojournal: An International Journal of Human Geography and Environmental Sciences
Volume
62
Issue
1-2
First Page
115
Last Page
116
DOI
10.1007/s10708-005-1470-7
Abstract
This special issue of GeoJournal: An International Journal of Human Geography and Environmental Sciences emerged from a series of sessions that I co-organized with one of the authors, Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang of The University of Akron at the 99th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held in New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003. The theme of the sessions was “Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges”. Although the presenters were not required to use any particular conceptual framework in their analysis, collectively the 18 papers that made up the sessions addressed the following questions with reference to Africa: What went wrong? What are the prospects of Africa moving beyond its current state of socio-economic and political development? Will the 21st century be any different? What are the opportunities for development? What are the constraints? Three of the papers in this issue (Otiso, Yeboah, and Amissah-Arthur) were first presented at these sessions, one paper (Konadu-Agyeman & Shabaya) emerged partly from the sessions, and the other one paper (Hanson), although presented at that meeting, was not as part of the sessions.
Copyright Owner
Springer
Copyright Date
2005
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Owusu, Francis Y., "Opportunities and Challenges for Development in Africa: An Introduction" (2005). Community and Regional Planning Publications. 11.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/communityplanning_pubs/11
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Comments
This manuscript is an article from Geojournal 62(1-2) 2005: 115-116. The final publication is available at Springer via doi: 10.1007/s10708-005-1470-7. Posted with permission