ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the efforts of those struggling to transform the continent’s politics, and economies and presents the experience a much more rewarding one for all of Africa’s citizens. It examines the status of the transition in the continent and recommends ways in which the African people can more effectively prepare for the future. The book explores certain aspects of the transition and makes recommendations, which they believe can help Africans provide themselves with the types of institutional arrangements that would finally usher in an era of peace and development. The collapse of the apartheid state and the subsequent establishment of a non-racial democratic dispensation in South Africa mark the end of formal European colonization of the African continent. During the colonial period, Africans felt that their welfare would never be improved under a colonial system.
