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Horn of Africa since 2018
Continuities, Transformations, and Prospects
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes.Bringing together a group of experienced and younger scholars from …
Rethinking African Agriculture
How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods
Av Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely …
Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa
Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Ethiopia
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book examines environmental sustainability and inclusive economic growth, providing in-depth analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) in large-scale agriculture in Ethiopia.In most African states, arable land and other natural resources play a pivotal role for economic growth and …
Health and Care in Old Age in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent.The first part of the book sets the scene for the volume, profiling the demographic and health situation of …
International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army
Enduring Dilemmas of Transitional Justice
Inbunden, 2019
2315 kr
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This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda. Examining how the nature and character of complex conflict situations like that of northern Uganda confounds …
Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature
Av Jay Rajiva
Inbunden, 2020
2466 kr
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This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India.Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between contemporary …
Africa’s Elite Football
Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges
Inbunden, 2019
2680 kr
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This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international …
Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation
The Gaze from Southern Africa
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa.Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, …
Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon
The Role of Social Networks in Meeting Needs
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs.Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, the book provides a distinctive approach that draws on social network theory and insights from economic anthropology to shed light on how …
Narrating Human Rights in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of …
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon
Av Manu Lekunze
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon’s security architecture to determine its resilience.The author examines the key actors involved in Cameroon’s security and evaluates the organisational structures, before analysing the different …
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, …
Women Writers of the New African Diaspora
Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency
Inbunden, 2022
2466 kr
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This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna, …
African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World
Inbunden, 2019
1032 kr
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This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the "intellectual" within an African context, this …
Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film
A Study in Globalectics
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic …
National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration, and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Taking into account the complex nature of healing across moral, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual …
Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa
Av Lori Maguire, Susan Ball m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age. The period since the Second World War has seen profound changes in sub-Saharan Africa, notably because of decolonization, the creation of independent nation-states and the transformation …
Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa
Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
Av Jacinta Maweu, Admire Mare m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either ‘good’ (as …
Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa
Perspectives from Hybrid Knowledge Production
Av Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Irina Turner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2454 kr
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This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and beyond. Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global sciences are culturally equal and …
Urban Issues in Rapidly Growing Cities
Planning for Development in Addis Ababa
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.Just like other developing cities, Addis Ababa is undergoing numerous natural and policy-driven changes. This book analyses the …
Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film
Av Naomi Nkealah, Obioma Nnaemeka
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book investigates how the intersection between gendered violence and human rights is depicted and engaged with in Africana literature and films. The rich and multifarious range of film and literature emanating from Africa and the diaspora provides a fascinating lens through which we can …
Greening Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Av Ralph Luken, Edward Clarence-Smith
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.The book critically examines the concept of greening industrialisation and describes the progress and data challenges of monitoring the Sustainable …
Supermarket Retailing in Africa
Av Felix Adamu Nandonde, John L. Stanton
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent.Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market …
Introduction to Rwandan Law
Inbunden, 2020
2315 kr
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This book explores key innovations in Rwandan law, exploring how the country has tried to combine the homegrown legal system with the civil law and common law legal systems to create a new hybrid legal system. The author explores the history of Rwandan law through the pre-colonial, to colonial and …
State Fragility and Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
Indicators and Interventions
Av John Idriss Lahai, Isaac Koomson
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes the ‘figure’ of fragile states as the unit the analysis and situates the study of fragility, governance and political adaptation within contemporary …
Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation
Av Emmanuel O Oritsejafor, Allan D. Cooper
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their …
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature
Av Sule E. Egya
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial ecocriticism, the book pays attention to textual …
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa
Theories, Issues and Practices
Inbunden, 2020
2315 kr
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This book examines the conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa, expanding it’s frontiers beyond corporate reporting, voluntary corporate charity and community development projects.Taking a corporate law perspective on CSR, the author combines theory and practice to explain how …
Regional Development Poles and the Transformation of African Economies
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book argues that the development of capital goods manufacturing industries in four relatively large African economies will create regional development poles, from which industrialization will spread to the smaller African countries. In this book, Benaiah Yongo-Bure explains the need for …
Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization—specifically, the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna, Nigeria—and its consequences for deceased workers’ families.The author shows how the dead work in various ways for Christians and Muslims who …
