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Insights into Policies and Practices on the Right to Development
Av Carol Chi Ngang, Serges Djoyou Kamga
Inbunden, 2020
1556 kr
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As the world continues to grapple with a range of practical development challenges that are directly linked to livelihood concerns about human well-being and declining living standards, often overlooked is the human right to development, which remains largely unfulfilled. In the face of successive …
Insights into Policies and Practices on the Right to Development
Av Carol Chi Ngang, Serges Djoyou Kamga
E-bok, 2020
1714 kr
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As the world continues to grapple with a range of practical development challenges that are directly linked to livelihood concerns about human well-being and declining living standards, often overlooked is the human right to development, which remains largely unfulfilled. In the face of successive …
Tight Embrace
Narratives and Dynamics of Euro-African Relations
Av Marco Zoppi
Inbunden, 2020
1697 kr
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This book provides various examples showing how Europe and Africa can be conceptualized and researched as a single macro-area connected by interrelated, global and multilevel dynamics.What types of relations characterize Europe and Africa today? The nature of the connections is neither clear nor …
Copper King in Central Africa
Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia's Rhokana Corporation
Av Hyden Munene
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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Copper King in Central Africa offers a detailed account of the corporate history of the Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it explores the discovery of viable ores on the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian Copperbelt in the late 1920s, which attracted …
Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa
Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle
Av Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
458 kr
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Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region during the era of the armed struggle.From Angola and Mozambique, to Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the new technology of radio provided the …
Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa
Av Toyin Falola, Nicole Griffin
Inbunden, 2021
1556 kr
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Key to African studies is understanding the knowledge systems of the continent and her diaspora. The representation and understanding of Africa are dependent on the observer’s definition of knowledge. Afrocentric knowledge is comprised of a collection of political, religious, and indigenous belief …
Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa
Av Toyin Falola, Nicole Griffin
Häftad, 2023
514 kr
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Key to African studies is understanding the knowledge systems of the continent and her diaspora. The representation and understanding of Africa are dependent on the observer’s definition of knowledge. Afrocentric knowledge is comprised of a collection of political, religious, and indigenous belief …
Rethinking Institutions, Processes and Development in Africa
Av Ernest Aniche, Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2021
1556 kr
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African scholarship concerning the nexus between institutions and development is still dominated by the economic perspective of development despite the emergence of the humanistic perspective of development. The humanistic perspective is a more embracing, encompassing, and comprehensive view of …
Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication
Av Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Emmanuel Debrah
Häftad, 2023
514 kr
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Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections …
Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation
New Perspectives on Nigeria
Häftad, 2024
458 kr
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This book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their …
Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa
Shifting Mobilization
Av Toyin Falola, Céline A. Jacquemin
Inbunden, 2022
1556 kr
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Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive …
Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa
Shifting Mobilization
Av Toyin Falola, Céline A. Jacquemin
Häftad, 2024
514 kr
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Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa: Shifting Mobilization, edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin, questions whether identity is providing and sustaining power for elites, or fueling oppression and conflicts, being mobilized for exclusionary movements versus inclusive …
History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border
Inbunden, 2023
1168 kr
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History, Identity, and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border analyzes issues of history, identity, and the Bukusu-Bagisu relations on the Kenya and Uganda border. From this microcosmic level, Peter Wafula Wekesa explores forms of trans-border social, economic, and political …
African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security
Av Masake Pilisano Harris, Richard Obinna Iroanya
Inbunden, 2023
1134 kr
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African Perspectives on Global Pandemics and the Challenges of Peace and Security by Masake Pilisano Harris and Richard Obinna Iroanya dissects the effects of pandemics in Africa and the possibilities for countering pandemic outbreaks in the future. The contributors of this volume bring new …
Social and Ethical Issues of Global Pandemics
A Southern African Perspective
Av Masake Pilisano Harris, Richard Obinna Iroanya
Inbunden, 2023
1134 kr
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the weaknesses inherent in the social infrastructure of African states, especially healthcare and social security systems. African states were characterized by a high level of unpreparedness with scientific and technological insufficiency to address the pandemic …
African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century
Theories, Perspectives, and Issues
Av Emeka C. Iloh, Ernest T. Aniche m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1556 kr
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African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century: Theories, Perspectives, and Issues edited by Emeka C. Iloh, Ernest T. Aniche, and Stephen N. Azom fills the gap in the discourses on African political economy from an African perspective. Since the end of colonialism in the second half of the …
Right to Development and Illicit Financial Flows from Africa
Dynamics, Perspectives, and Prospects
Av Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga, Serges Djoyou Kamga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1415 kr
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Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga, Serges Djoyou Kamga, and Arnold Kwesiga explore a relatively new phenomenon, namely referred to as illicit financial flows, that aim to impoverish the African continent and prevent its economic development. There is a direct relationship between illicit financial flows …
Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age
Farooq Kperogi and the Virtual Community
Av Toyin Falola
Inbunden, 2023
1415 kr
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In Citizenship and the Diaspora in the Digital Age: Farooq Kperogi and the Virtual Community, Toyin Falola examines how the members of the Nigerian diaspora create a virtual community and instrumentalize the digital age to speak about the nation and its failures, possibilities, and promises. This …
Narrative of Africa Rising
Changing Perspectives
Av Darlingtina K. Esiaka, Jamaine Abidogun
Inbunden, 2024
1204 kr
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Throughout time, African civilizations have manoeuvred and negotiated successfully to maintain their societies and ensure cultural continuity despite encountering expanding trade, foreign invasion, and imposition of colonial and neocolonial states. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing …
Beyond History
African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Av Elijah Nyaga Munyi, David Mwambari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1603 kr
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Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas …
Beyond History
African Agency in Development, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution
Av Elijah Nyaga Munyi, David Mwambari m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
558 kr
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Moving beyond a self-indulgent attitude about Africa’s historical victimhood, the book seeks to capture how African states individually and Africa’s collective institutions (the AU) are providing agency in Africa’s international relations. While African states have been trailblazers in such ideas …
Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication
Av Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Emmanuel Debrah
Inbunden, 2019
1697 kr
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Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections …
Ghanaian Politics and Political Communication
Av Samuel Gyasi Obeng, Emmanuel Debrah
E-bok, 2019
561 kr
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Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections …
Pastoralist-Farmer Conflicts in Nigeria
A Human Displacement Perspective
Inbunden, 2022
1415 kr
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of one of the most persistent and perennial types of conflict in Africa– pastoralist-farmer conflicts – and the linkages with conflict management and resolution, vulnerability and displacement, government capacity and deficits, and the role of local and …
Imagining Vernacular Histories
Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola
Av Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, Abikal Borah
Inbunden, 2020
1748 kr
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Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola’s reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of “ritual archives,” the contributors to this volume rethink …
Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation
New Perspectives on Nigeria
Inbunden, 2021
1345 kr
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This book analyses patterns of women’s political participation and evaluates disparity between levels of women’s participation in politics and representation in governance in Nigeria. It also examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in governance and decision-making as well as their …
Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa
Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle
Av Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1697 kr
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Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region during the era of the armed struggle.From Angola and Mozambique, to Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the new technology of radio provided the …
Identities, Histories and Values in Postcolonial Nigeria
Inbunden, 2021
1603 kr
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Postcolonial Nigeria has been the subject of many literatures that identify and interrogate the many issues and problems that had made it near impossible for Nigerians to achieve the anticolonial aspirations that gave birth to independent Nigeria. The rationale for this volume is to situate the …
Reflections on Leadership and Institutions in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1697 kr
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This book contains different reflections on leadership and institutions in Africa. Drawing from different ideological and methodological orientations, the book highlights how leadership and institutions have shaped and continue to shape the trajectory of Africa’s political and economic development. …
Water, Health, and Women’s Rights in South Africa
Sustainable and Equitable Development
Inbunden, 2027
1263 kr
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Exploring the critical intersection of water access and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for South African women, this book highlights how limited water access disproportionately affects women, and it posits solutions.Access to clean and reliable water remains a pressing challenge …
