Contemporary African Politics – serie
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28 produkter
Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy
Institutions, Participation and Accountability
Häftad, 2020
722 kr
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Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries. However, across the board, challenges abound. Central to Africa’s checkered democratic narrative is the weakness of its democratic institutions, participatory mechanisms and accountability …
Foreign Policy in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Elite Perceptions of Global Engagement
Inbunden, 2020
2519 kr
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This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book …
Foreign Policy in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Elite Perceptions of Global Engagement
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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This book examines how Rwandan elites within the government, private sector and civil society perceive the nation’s political and economic relationship with the international community. Using testimonies and interviews of Rwandan political, military and economic leaders, and bureaucrats, this book …
Urban Politics After Apartheid
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process. Based on long-term fieldwork in the former townships 20 years after the end of apartheid, it provides an in-depth analysis of how activists and local politicians engage …
Making of the Constitution of Kenya
A Century of Struggle and the Future of Constitutionalism
Av Charles O. Oyaya, Nana Poku
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises. The first related to the trauma of colonialism and struggle for independence. The second a period of constitutional dictatorship and the clamor for reform. The third, most recent crisis, being one of identity, …
Neoliberal Globalisation and Resistance from Below
Why the Subalterns Resist in Bolivia and not in Ghana
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the subalterns endure injustices without revolting most of the time, but revolt sometimes against some injustices? The euphoria of ’globalisation-from-below’, …
Horn of Africa since the 1960s
Local and International Politics Intertwined
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent. Host to great ancient civilizations, diverse peoples, and expansive states, the region has experienced massive social, economic, and political transformations which have given …
Politics, Public Policy and Social Protection in Africa
Evidence from Cash Transfer Programmes
Av Nicholas Awortwi, Emmanuel Aiyede
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Africa is now in a much-improved position to support its poor and vulnerable people. It has more money, more policy commitment and abundant intervention programmes. Yet the number of citizens living lives of desperation, or at risk of destitution, is at an all-time high, and still rising. What is …
Post-Colonial Kenya
The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State
Av Rok Ajulu
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country’s political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya’s history.When Kibaki stole the 2007 presidential election, leading to a spiral of …
Revolution and Democracy in Ghana
The Politics of Jerry John Rawlings
Inbunden, 2022
2203 kr
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This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings’ plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country’s political and economic decision-making processes. Rawlings came to power in Ghana in late 1981 determined to restructure the characteristics of …
Revolution and Democracy in Ghana
The Politics of Jerry John Rawlings
Häftad, 2024
669 kr
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This book analyses Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings’ plans for radical democratisation in Ghana, involving ordinary people directly in the country’s political and economic decision-making processes. Rawlings came to power in Ghana in late 1981 determined to restructure the characteristics of …
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World
Challenges, Agency and Resistance
Av Paul Ugor, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, …
Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
Political Marginalisation of Kenya's Nubians
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears …
State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa
Av Arrigo Pallotti, Corrado Tornimbeni
Häftad, 2017
849 kr
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Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development. One key issue appears to be the solution of the land question. This vital …
Reinventing Development
Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana
Häftad, 2016
879 kr
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Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid-receiving countries back in control of …
Africa Under Neoliberalism
Av Nana Poku, Jim Whitman
Inbunden, 2017
2519 kr
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The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa’s political elite to anchor the continent’s development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental …
Africa Under Neoliberalism
Av Nana Poku, Jim Whitman
Häftad, 2017
766 kr
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The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa’s political elite to anchor the continent’s development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental …
Reinventing Development
Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana
Inbunden, 2014
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid-receiving countries back in control of …
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World
Challenges, Agency and Resistance
Av Paul Ugor, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
Inbunden, 2015
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, …
Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
Political Marginalisation of Kenya's Nubians
Inbunden, 2015
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears …
Neoliberal Globalisation and Resistance from Below
Why the Subalterns Resist in Bolivia and not in Ghana
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the subalterns endure injustices without revolting most of the time, but revolt sometimes against some injustices? The euphoria of ’globalisation-from-below’, …
State, Land and Democracy in Southern Africa
Av Arrigo Pallotti, Corrado Tornimbeni
Inbunden, 2015
2594 kr
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Each country in southern Africa has a unique history but in all of them socio-economic inequalities and high poverty levels weaken the governments’ legitimacy and represent a challenge to models of economic development. One key issue appears to be the solution of the land question. This vital …
Post-Colonial Kenya
The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State
Av Rok Ajulu
Inbunden, 2021
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country’s political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya’s history.When Kibaki stole the 2007 presidential election, leading to a spiral of …
Making of the Constitution of Kenya
A Century of Struggle and the Future of Constitutionalism
Av Charles O. Oyaya, Nana Poku
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kenya, like the rest of Africa, has gone through three sets of constitutional crises. The first related to the trauma of colonialism and struggle for independence. The second a period of constitutional dictatorship and the clamor for reform. The third, most recent crisis, being one of identity, …
Horn of Africa since the 1960s
Local and International Politics Intertwined
Inbunden, 2017
3165 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Horn of Africa has long been one of the most dynamic and politically turbulent sub-regions on the African continent. Host to great ancient civilizations, diverse peoples, and expansive states, the region has experienced massive social, economic, and political transformations which have given …
Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy
Institutions, Participation and Accountability
Inbunden, 2017
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries. However, across the board, challenges abound. Central to Africa’s checkered democratic narrative is the weakness of its democratic institutions, participatory mechanisms and accountability …
Politics, Public Policy and Social Protection in Africa
Evidence from Cash Transfer Programmes
Av Nicholas Awortwi, Emmanuel Aiyede
Inbunden, 2017
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Africa is now in a much-improved position to support its poor and vulnerable people. It has more money, more policy commitment and abundant intervention programmes. Yet the number of citizens living lives of desperation, or at risk of destitution, is at an all-time high, and still rising. What is …
Urban Politics After Apartheid
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Urban Politics After Apartheid presents an understanding of gendered urban politics in South Africa as an interactive process. Based on long-term fieldwork in the former townships 20 years after the end of apartheid, it provides an in-depth analysis of how activists and local politicians engage …
