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Ozoemena, Rita Nkiruka
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2019-02-28T12:31:48Z |
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2019-02-28T12:31:48Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017-12 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Africa has been described as the ‘dark continent’. The darkness comes from the fact that looking
at Africa from the global satellite images, it is mostly surrounded by darkness compared to other
continents of the world. It is also common knowledge that there is energy poverty in Africa. In
fact, the World Bank president, Jim Yong, described the African situation of lack of energy as being
equivalent to ‘energy apartheid’. A term so difficult to contemplate in the circumstances, it depicts the
developmental challenges facing the African continent. In the last decade, Africa has been making
a significant shift towards dealing with its energy crisis, which is particularly of vital importance
to development. In doing so, it has become imperative to underline the correlation between energy
and development. At the core of this interface is people-driven development, a concept intricately
linked to the right to development (RTD) that Africa specifically guarantees in the African Charter
on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR, also referred to as the African Charter) The RTD has in the
last 30 years of its adoption by the African Charter and the United Nations (UN) Declaration on
the Right to Development moved from a controversial human right whose content is unclear to an
African agenda significantly contributing to what may be referred to as a new development model
on the continent. Currently, there is a shift led by the African Union’s development model in the form
of Agenda 2063, which makes a decisive shift from pure economic growth for the countries to a
people-oriented development agenda, sustaining a theory of well-being in which core issues, such as
energy, form a vital feature of the socio-economic development of the people.
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Centre for Human Rights |
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am2019 |
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http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ai |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Ozoemena, R.N. 2017, 'Right to development ‘Shining the Light’ on Africa', Africa Insight, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 27-38. |
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0256-2804 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68524 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Africa Institute of South Africa |
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dc.rights |
© Africa Institute of South Africa |
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dc.subject |
Africa |
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Right to development (RTD) |
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Energy poverty |
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Developmental challenges |
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dc.title |
Right to development ‘Shining the Light’ on Africa |
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dc.type |
Article |
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