AI JOURNAL:

The Institute makes publications a key part of its functions and its flag ship monthly publication, Modernizing Africa, ought to be "a must read" for all those persons interested in African business, politics and society.

Africa Institute's Journal combines academic rigor with practical suggestions for a modernizing world. For example, how does the present ideology of privatization espoused by Western lending organizations (World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) affect Africa? Is that economic ideology necessarily good for a modernizing economy? Are these financial institutions consciously or unconsciously retarding the modernization process in Africa?

Are Western political structures and ideologies suitable for Africa? In America, for instance, the accepted political ideology is the liberal-conservative continuum. Are those necessarily functional in the African context, and if not what political spectrum of ideas should replace them?

China and Japan had to modify classical Western political and economic concepts and structures to suite their cultural contexts before they could modernize their societies. How should Africans engage in this modification processes?

The Institute's publications, be it books or journal articles, are designed to be of practical help to businessmen and political leaders rather than be mere academic or mental abstractions.  

WHY CONTACT AFRICA INSTITUTE SEATTLE?

It pays to have a broadened horizon, and an objective understanding of other people's ways of life. Such understanding is particularly crucial in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected global economy, where the individual's survival depends on what happens in other parts of the world. Africa Institute enables people to acquire objective information on matters Africa.

For more information, please call (206) 529-47-4745 or e-mail us at: aijournal@africainstituteseattle.org