Suchergebnisse

Global responsibility as a local agenda / Gunther Hilliges -- The project of "tradition" : constitutionalism in Africa / Manfred O. Hinz -- Legitimacy, legitimacy crises of traditional rule in northern Ghana, and the role of the state / Brigitta Benzing -- The past on the present : Kasikili/Sedudu Island case / Effa Okupa -- The legitimacy of modern self-government : the Namibian case / Gerhard T(c)œtemeyer -- Local self-government : the enlightening case of Germany / Dian Schefold -- Authority and the portrait of the ruler : Africa between tradition and modernity / Helke Kammerer-Grothaus -- Direct democracy, alternative to representative forms of government [Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo] / Detlev Quintern -- The divided legitimacy : lessons from empirical research in Namibia / Brian Katjaerua -- "Walking in the middle of the road" [Sekhukhune, South Africa] / Barbara Oomen -- Claims and challenges / Thomas Gatter -- Aboriginal title and the right of internal self-determination under the South African Constitution / (c)zlem (c)ʺlgen -- Autochthonous peoples and their international legal protection / Gerhard Stuby -- The South African constitutional, policy, and statutory framework for traditional leadership and institutions / Nic Olivier -- Environmental education for sustainable development in Namibia / Meike Wulfmeyer -- The African local and the global / Helgard Patemann -- The rule of law and the new African constitutionalism / Manfred O. Hinz

There now exists overwhelming evidence that many African states are gerontocracies - states wherein the leadership is way older than the average age of the population. Whereas these discussions were previously attributed to external observers of African politics, particularly observers from the western world, this question of and on African leadership has now gained domestic root. The youth of the continent has since started demanding their places at various decision-making tables within their nation states. This has led to generational antagonism of which some have led to youth-led uprisings. While there are several analyses at the state level, there has been little analysis of the relationship between the African Union (AU) and the youth of the continent. This text takes the analysis to the continental level. The text does not only concern a continental analysis, it's most important contribution is to add new developments that have not appeared in much of the contemporary literature on African development. To buttress these perspectives, the text looks at the relationship between the AU and two continental youth organizations: the PYU (Pan-African Youth Union) and the AYC (African Youth Commission). It reveals that at the time of writing, Africa was the only continent without a recognized continental youth body. The text is aimed at provoking further questions and discussions on the AU's youth discourse with this daring question: sabotaging or bureaucratizing youth?

Globally, there is increased customer mobility and competition within the higher education sector. As such, university management and administration practices should consider academic satisfaction, quality and loyalty as important factors to influence graduate job performance. The study was conducted to see if self-perceived job performance had a role in mediating the effect of academic satisfaction and perceived academic quality on academic loyalty. Data was collected from 714 respondents using a cross-sectional survey. The covariance-based structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. According to the study results, self-perceived job performance partially mediates the effect of both academic satisfaction and academic quality on academic loyalty. The study findings emphasise the importance of graduate quality and satisfaction in influencing loyalty. Thus, the higher education sector should take cognisance of self-perceived job performance as this also influences academic loyalty.