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- President Obama discusses youth empowerment and leadership at the Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall meeting held at the University of Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa. Obama says he supports the Initiative launched in 2010 to promote leadership development, entrepreneurship, and connect the next generation of African leaders with one another and the United States. Town hall participants include over 600 young leaders, ages 18-35, who are involved in public, private and civic organizations. Obama answers questions from the crowd starting with a South African, a Kenyan, Ugandan, and Nigerian. He is introduced by Nkepile Mabuse who asks participants to, "ask a short, sharp, smart question."
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Joseph Biden addresses the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Civil Society Forum in Washington, D.C. Biden talks about the essence of democracy and what it takes for a country to succeed both politically and economically. He advocates for empowering and educating women suggesting to not do so "is a waste."
- Date Issued:
- 2014-08-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The concepts of media as the fourth estate and the society's watchdog are popular among communication scholars. However, a consideration of the actualization of this concept is indicative of the media's failing in playing these roles. Very often, the media marginalise and disempower the masses whose causes they ought to promote. If the media were to truly play the watchdog role as the fourth estate, then both the structure and ownership of the media must be reviewed with a view to redressing the imbalances that make them tools for the disempowerment of civil society in Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- African nations are at the crossroads. Some of their economies are tottering, and on the brink of collapse while social, cultural and political structures are becoming weaker by the day. There is need for better management of Africa's resources. The article advances an argument that communication is critical in the empowerment of civil society. It points out that communication is a doubleedged blade that can either empower or disempower a civil society. The paper highlights key areas in which communication can empower a society. These are in the economic, cultural and political spheres. The effects of modern communication technology especially the internet and e-mail among others, which have radically transformed information dissemination system are discussed. It includes that African countries must take cognisance of the role of communication and harness it for their benefit.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- This article critically examines the depth of the reforms and elections that underpinned Nigeria's recently concluded political transition. It also analyses the important challenges confronting democratic consolidation in the face of the "imperfect" nature of the political transition, revolutionary pressures from below and factional struggles within the hegemonic elite -- all of which have direct implications for the social contract and the national question. At the end it is argued that this transition is Nigeria's last chance -- and except it transfers real power to the Nigerian people, the current struggles could signpost grave portends for the Nigerian Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Description:
- Vice President Joseph Biden addresses the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Civil Society Forum in Washington, D.C. Biden talks about the essence of democracy and what it takes for a country to succeed both politically and economically. He advocates for empowering and educating women suggesting to not do so "is a waste."
- Date Issued:
- 2014-08-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama discusses youth empowerment and leadership at the Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall meeting held at the University of Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa. Obama says he supports the Initiative launched in 2010 to promote leadership development, entrepreneurship, and connect the next generation of African leaders with one another and the United States. Town hall participants include over 600 young leaders, ages 18-35, who are involved in public, private and civic organizations. Obama answers questions from the crowd starting with a South African, a Kenyan, Ugandan, and Nigerian. He is introduced by Nkepile Mabuse who asks participants to, "ask a short, sharp, smart question."
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection