ABSTRACT

The various chapters in this volume have attempted to examine the impact of the “new globalization” on Africa. Addressing various frontier issues - debt, human rights, development, state sovereignty, the environment and the HIV/AIDS pandemic – each chapter deciphers the nature and dynamics of the problematique and then situates them within the bowels of the phenomenon. Specifically, there were two major overarching questions: What are the travails of each of the frontier issues? What is the impact of the “new globalization” on the issue?