Africa, Go Green! A New Initiative for the Continent’s Youth to Become Leaders in the Global Environment Needs to Combine Activism with Knowledge, Research and Policy
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Roland Benedikter
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William Mensa Tsedze
Abstract
A growing number of scholars assert that the second half of the century will be the African century. But the question is how exactly, and with which perspectives. This is the challenge of the African youth. Africa’s young are eagerly searching for their place in globalization. The global environmental challenge provides the best opportunity for the continent’s new generation for two reasons: because Africa will be most affected by climate change, and because it is ideally suited to be at the forefront of the emerging renewable energy business, including solar and wind energy. Moreover, taking care of the environment could be a decisive carrier of inter-generational understanding and ethnic reconciliation. In an international knowledge economy, Africa’s youth needs first and foremost an educational initiative at the forefront of global knowledge combining activism with research and policy in order to fulfill such ambition.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- “Good” and “Bad” Actors in Digital Space: The Un/Making of a Digital Citizen
- The Jade Straitjacket: Measuring Reactions to China’s Rise
- Globalizing Education in Times of Hyper-Nationalism, Rising Authoritarianism, and Shrinking Worldviews
- Commentary
- The Fall of the Post-Industrial, Post-Global, Post-Colonial World
- Africa, Go Green! A New Initiative for the Continent’s Youth to Become Leaders in the Global Environment Needs to Combine Activism with Knowledge, Research and Policy
- Review Essay
- Gordon Mathews, Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang. The World in Guangzhou. African and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace; Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke and Jeffrey Gale Williamson, Eds. The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1871
- Book Reviews
- Edward Ross Dickinson. The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South
