Climate of Fear and Food Insecurity in Africa

The end of the Cold War was thought to be an end of history. End ofhistory, not only in the form of liberal international system aspostulated by Francis Fukuyama, but also an end of history fromholistic perspective where sustainable development would be the orderof the day. What perestroika and glasnost brought to Africa amount tomisery, poverty, maldevelopment and a lacuna in the area of economicopportunities. To most states in the continent, clouds of war, conflicts,banditry, kidnapping and politics of zero-sum-game pervade theatmosphere.