The Changing Pattern of African Development Stategies and the South-South Development Platforms
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2018
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Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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This paper investigated the prospects and the challenges of the South-South development platforms. The research findings which were generated through secondary sources reveals that development challenges in Africa are legion and are noticeable in virtually all the development sectors. The study reveals further that the North-South development platforms generated marginal success and has not sufficiently aided development efforts in Africa because the development programme were foreign in content, largely borrowed, less understood, largely irrelevant and very draconian in nature. Such development programmes of action have promoted the greatest hardship to the greater majority of Africans, especially those from the poorest households. The South- South development platforms have however generated reasonable levels of socio-economic development. However, different ideological leaning, especially during the cold war era, lack of institutional charters and poor infrastructural development have hampered the optimal utilisation of the South-South development platforms as efficient development avenues. Efforts are being made to repackage and refocus the platforms through the formation of micro-development frameworks within the Southern Hemisphere.
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African Development Stategies, South-South Development Platforms