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Ranging from the impact of high corporate concentration to the role of digitalization and buyer power, leading scholars and practitioners delve into the development of competition regimes in Africa. They offer in-depth country assessments, thematic analyses, and an overview of the challenges and dynamics of African markets.

Scholars, activists, and artists come together in this innovative collection to highlight the power of dialogue as a mode of knowledge production in building and sustaining African feminist communities. Their wide-ranging exploration encompasses such diverse topics as geopolitics and its influence on women, sexuality, class, global power struggles, and gender-based violence—resulting in lessons that can be applied far beyond Africa.

Three Soweto playwrights. Three distinctive theatrical styles. Each using plays to communicate messages of humanism, Black Consciousness, and Black solidarity. Andile Xaba traces the history of community theater in Soweto, South Africa, during the turbulent years of 1984–1994. Showing how township theater became a popular avenue for political and cultural expression, he places the development of icons Gibson Kente, Matsemela Manaka, and Maishe Maponya into the sociopolitical context of the time.

Tracing the social history of a historically Coloured South African township, the authors of this revealing collection present the edited transcripts of life-story interviews with twenty-five current and past residents of Wentworth. This history from below resoundingly refutes unfounded generalizations about the townships’ residents, illustrating the diversity of the community’s members and the impact of major transformations since the late 1950s.