Africa in Development – serie
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Women in the Informal Sector and Poverty Reduction in Morocco
The City of Fez as a Case Study
Häftad, 2019
808 kr
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It is established that the informal sector plays an important role in the creation of job opportunities for many rural and urban people. However, there is a scarcity of academic research on the relationship between gender, informality of employment and poverty reduction in Morocco with particular …
Decolonizing Africa and African Development
The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge
Häftad, 2016
907 kr
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The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankara’s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumba’s call for them to write their own history. Exploring the history of Africa’s underdevelopment and the short-circuiting of the …
Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994
Häftad, 2011
709 kr
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The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative.In this revisionist analysis of …
Critical and Creative Education for the New Africa
Av Titus Pacho
Häftad, 2013
779 kr
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This book is about re-inventing Africa – it aims to induct a new cohort of dedicated professionals, guided not by material gains and power, but by personal commitment, in building a better society. It is about an education that develops responsible citizens inspired by the desire to serve their …
Samuel Johnson of Yorubaland, 1846-1901
Identity, Change and the Making of the Mission Agent
Av Kehinde Olumuyiwa Olabimtan
Häftad, 2013
1316 kr
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This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity. Drawing essentially from the contexts that produced the man, from Sierra Leone to the Yoruba country, the study shows Samuel Johnson as embodying the …
Cooperative Collegial Democracy for Africa and Multi-ethnic Societies
Democracy without Tears
Häftad, 2012
821 kr
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It is no longer a matter of debate to state that the practice of ‘democracy’ in different African nations is almost always experienced through violence or something near to it. The principal question addressed by this work is, ‘Why are many African countries finding it difficult to practise …
Politics of Senegambian Integration, 1958-1994
Häftad, 2008
867 kr
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This study focuses on the experience in state-managed cooperation and integration between The Gambia and Senegal. Specifically, it examines the nexus between national politics in The Gambia and inter-state cooperation in Senegambia; that is, the impact and implications of politics in The Gambia on …
Do ‘Zimbabweans’ Exist?
Trajectories of Nationalism, National Identity Formation and Crisis in a Postcolonial State
Häftad, 2009
1024 kr
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This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from the common ‘praise-texts’ in …
Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa
The Triple Partnership as an Alternative Approach – The Case of Uganda
Häftad, 2011
585 kr
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The author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women) in Africa and other …
