African Studies: History, Politics and Culture
The Hidden Debate: The Truth Revealed about the Battle over Affirmative Action in South Africa and the United States
1st Edition
By Akil Kokayi Khalfani
February 13, 2013
The Hidden Debate is a fresh and cutting-edge comparative analysis of the ongoing and highly charged social conflict over affirmative action in South Africa and the United States. The debate over affirmative action has raged for over 30 years in the United States and since the early 1990s in South...
Doing Justice without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria Model
1st Edition
By Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi
January 11, 2013
This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African societies, the Afikpo indigenous justice system employs restorative, transformative and communitarian principles in conflict resolution. This book ...
The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya
1st Edition
By Maurice N. Amutabi
January 11, 2013
The book breaks new ground in understanding the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Africa. The book historicizes NGOs using the Rockefeller Foundation as a case study, looking at its tripartite paradoxical roles as an agent of colonialism, globalization and development/...
The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization: The Nigerian Story
1st Edition
By Aje-Ori Anna Agbese
January 11, 2013
In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian ...
African Minorities in the New World
1st Edition
Edited
By Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi
November 28, 2012
This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and ...
Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965
1st Edition
By Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani
November 14, 2012
This is the first comprehensive study of leftist ideology and movements and their organizational structure in colonial and post colonial Nigeria. Tijani moves the contributions of Nigerian leftists from the archival centers into mainstream intellectual and nationalist history, proving the first ...
Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia
1st Edition
By Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o
November 14, 2012
This book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition within the context of transition politics. The decade 1990- 2000 saw a total of 78 top leadership elections involving 43 of the 48 sub-Saharan ...
The 'Civil Society' Problematique: Deconstructing Civility and Southern Nigeria's Ethnic Radicalization
1st Edition
By Adedayo Oluwakayode Adekson
November 14, 2012
This volume deftly undertakes both a theoretical deconstruction of the concept of civil society (and related themes, including civility) and an empirical analysis of the radicalization process in Southern Nigeria ....
The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism: Afrikaner Unity, the National Party and the Radical Right in Stellenbosch, 1934–1948
1st Edition
By Joanne L. Duffy
November 14, 2012
The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism is the first significant local study of National Party and Afrikaner politics. By focusing on Stellenbosch as a university and a town, the book extends our understanding of the complex interaction between the GNP/HNP and various organizations of the radical right...
Student Power in Africa's Higher Education: A Case of Makerere University
1st Edition
By Frederick K. Byaruhanga
September 10, 2012
This book, the first of its kind to treat Uganda, provides a historical analysis of the role of student voices in the development of Uganda's higher education. It not only chronicles incidents of student protests, but also explores and analyses their trigger points as well as the strategies ...
The Experience of Economic Redistribution: The Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy in South Africa
1st Edition
By Clarence Tshitereke
September 10, 2012
This book provides an analysis of the country's political economy in transition. It documents the history of the gold mining industry's involvement in shaping the political landscape of South Africa, and shows the degree to which the political transition was induced to put in place a new mode of ...
Western-Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900-1963: The African American Factor
1st Edition
By Jim C. Harper
September 10, 2012
Western-educated Elites in Kenya, proposes to conduct a critical examination of the emergence of the American-educated Kenyan elites (the Asomi) and their role in the nationalist movement and eventually their Africanization of the Civil and Private sectors in Kenya....