Routledge African Studies
Healthcare Education in Nigeria: Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Balogun
August 26, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of...
The Diaspora of the Comoros in France: Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation
1st Edition
By Katharina Fritsch
August 26, 2024
Based on an ethnographic study of mobilisations of the Comorian diaspora in Marseille during political and cultural events, the book examines communitarisation in relation to three thematic areas, namely spaces, cultural markets and local politics. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, ...
Black Thought: A Theory of Articulation
1st Edition
By Victor Peterson II
September 25, 2023
This book uncovers a logical fallacy underlying Afro-Pessimism and provides a formal theory of Articulation, teasing out new reflections on race and Blackness. Afro-Pessimism maintains that Blacks, subject to a subordinate position in society, suffer a cultural death. In this monograph, Victor ...
Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo: Writing on the Brink
1st Edition
By Gilbert Shang Ndi
September 25, 2023
The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. Examining a variety of novels that offer insightful representations of violence in their respective historical settings, the author argues that similar historical experiences ...
Naming and Othering in Africa: Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language
1st Edition
By Sambulo Ndlovu
September 25, 2023
This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Drawing on global and African examples, but with particular reference to Zimbabwe, the author demonstrates how names are used in class, race, ethnic, national, ...
African Language Media: Development, Economics and Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Abiodun Salawu
May 31, 2023
This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable ...
African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies: Reflections on Exile and Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
May 31, 2023
This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities. The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine...
African Transnational Mobility in China: Africans on the Move
1st Edition
By Roberto Castillo
May 31, 2023
Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The ...
Blackness in Israel: Rethinking Racial Boundaries
1st Edition
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By Uri Dorchin, Gabriella Djerrahian
May 31, 2023
This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and ...
Black–Arab Encounters in Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Touria Khannous
May 31, 2023
This book investigates how representations of Black Africans have been negotiated over time in Arabic literature and film. The book offers direct readings of a representative selection of primary texts, shedding light on the divergent ways these authors understood race across different genres, ...
Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam, Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, Sola Timothy Babatunde, Olutola Opeyemi Akindipe
May 31, 2023
This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development, the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of ...
Decolonising Childhoods in Eastern Africa: Literary and Cultural Representations
1st Edition
By Oduor Obura
May 31, 2023
This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa. Moving away from portrayals of eastern African childhood as characterised by want, the author argues for a differentiated and pluralist nature of the eastern African childhood. Taking...