Africa and its Diaspora: The principal reciprocal benefits to be derived from the amended Constitutive Act of the African Union
| Autor: | Gosnell L. Yorke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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geography Summit geography.geographical_feature_category Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Constitutive Act of the African Union Gender studies Africanization Diaspora Convention Principal (commercial law) Political science Development economics Citizenship Africana studies media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of African Renaissance Studies - Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity. 7:79-95 |
| ISSN: | 1753-7274 1818-6874 |
| Popis: | Under article 3(q) (Objectives) of the Protocol on Amendments to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, we read the following: ‘invite and encourage the full participation of the African Diaspora as an important part of our continent, in building the African Union (AU)’. According to the AU, ‘The African Diaspora are peoples of African descent and heritage outside the continent, irrespective of their citizenship and who remain committed to contribute to the development of the continent and the building of the African Union’. Not only is this posture entirely consistent with the African development agenda and Renaissance, but it is also congruent with the recent and first-ever AU African Diaspora Summit which was convened on Friday, 25 May 2012, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. This is so because the Summit provided us with an excellent opportunity to continue to reflect on, and engage with, issues relevant to the development of the continent and, by extension, its multilingual ... |
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