Africa in the New Millennium – serie
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Urban Africa
Changing Contours of Survival in the City
Av AbdouMaliq Simone, Abdelghani Abouhani
Häftad, 2005
460 kr
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This volume illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social dynamics of African city making and human survival today. It explores how African urban dwellers have had to find not only effective ways of pursuing their livelihoods and other aspirations within cities but also ways of managing …
Negotiating Modernity
Africa's Ambivalent Experience
Häftad, 2005
505 kr
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Modernity is the unfinished business of our times. In the case of Africa, as the scholars contributing to this volume show, the continent has been through a particularly ambivalent experience of modernity. Most work has tended to emphasize, on the one hand, its alien nature in Africa and, on the …
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
Inbunden, 2005
1283 kr
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Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations …
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
Häftad, 2005
390 kr
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Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations …
Insiders and Outsiders
Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
Häftad, 2006
512 kr
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This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and …
Intellectuals and African Development
Pretension and Resistance in African Politics
Av Björn Beckman, Gbemisola Adeoti
Häftad, 2006
517 kr
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This book looks at the very different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi and Achebe, to the military men in power and the students who defy repression. It suggests that intervention by international agencies who claim to promote 'democracy' and 'empower …
Ghana
One Decade of the Liberal State
Häftad, 2007
552 kr
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Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of …
Kenya
The Struggle for Democracy
Av Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Godwin R. Murunga
Häftad, 2007
517 kr
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The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes.This uniquely comprehensive study …
African Literature as Political Philosophy
Inbunden, 2007
1475 kr
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The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested.African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in …
African Literature as Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
529 kr
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The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested.African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in …
African Literature as Political Philosophy
E-bok, 2008
574 kr
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The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested.African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in …
Insiders and Outsiders
Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
E-bok, 2008
561 kr
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This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and …
Ghana
One Decade of the Liberal State
E-bok, 2008
613 kr
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Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of …
Intellectuals and African Development
Pretension and Resistance in African Politics
Av Björn Beckman, Gbemisola Adeoti
E-bok, 2008
561 kr
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This book looks at the very different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi and Achebe, to the military men in power and the students who defy repression. It suggests that intervention by international agencies who claim to promote 'democracy' and 'empower …
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
E-bok, 2008
412 kr
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Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations …
Kenya
The Struggle for Democracy
Av Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Godwin R. Murunga
E-bok, 2008
553 kr
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The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes.This uniquely comprehensive study …
African Literature as Political Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
561 kr
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The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested.African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in …
Ghana
One Decade of the Liberal State
E-bok, 2013
613 kr
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Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of …
Insiders and Outsiders
Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
E-bok, 2013
561 kr
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This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and …
Kenya
The Struggle for Democracy
Av Shadrack W. Nasong'o, Godwin R. Murunga
E-bok, 2013
553 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes.This uniquely comprehensive study …
Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa
Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress
E-bok, 2013
408 kr
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Democratic institutional forms and processes are increasingly widespread in Africa as dictatorial regimes have been forced to give way as a result of popular mobilization and external donor pressure. However the premises of the African scholars whose empirical research and analytical explorations …
