Contemporary Issues on Governance, Conflict and Security in Africa

Adeoye O. Akinola is Head of Research and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

• Chapter 1. Africa and the Scourge of Conflict and Insecurity.- Chapter 2. African Conflict and the ‘Post-colonial’ State.- Chapter 3. Climate Change and Emerging Conflict between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nasarawa and Plateau States, Nigeria.- Chapter 4. Grassroots conflict over ecosystem services provided by the Inner Niger Delta: The case of Mali.- Chapter 5. Conflict, Police impunity and the governance question in Nigeria: Reflecting on the #EndSARS protest.- Chapter 6. Trapped in the Ivory Tower: Using social movement theory to analyse a ‘movement in distress’.- Chapter 7. Terrorism in Sub-Sahara Africa: Assessing its Economic and Social Implications.- Chapter 8. Violent Conflict in the Sahel: Causes, Dynamics, and Actors.- Chapter 9. The Resurgence of Military Coups in Africa: The Case of West Africa and the Sahel.- Chapter 10. Media and Election Disputes in Nigeria.- Chapter 11. Governance, Security and Development Nexus in Galkayo, Somalia: A New Approach to Explaining Somalia’s Chronic Instability.- Chapter 12. Ceasefire arrangements as pre-conditions for independence in Southern Africa: implications for land conflicts in Zimbabwe and South Africa.- Chapter 13. The Security Sector in Zimbabwe’s Diamond Governance (2006-2015).- Chapter 14. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflicts in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and security.- Chapter 15. Somaliland’s Plural Justice System and its Influence on Peacebuilding and Development.- Chapter 16. Exploring the impact of women’s organizations in peacebuilding in South Sudan: Post-independence progress.- Chapter 17. Gender-based violence in South Africa: The second pandemic?.- Chapter 18. A Reflection on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria.- Chapter 19. Food security as a new frontier of war: A geo-historical perspective of food security and armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 20. IGAD and the Quest for Economic and Security Regionalism.- Chapter 21. Ethnic Federalism, Exclusionary Self-Determination Rights, and Conflict in Ethiopia: Consociational Democracy as an Alternative Approach to Peace and Security.