Routledge African Studies
Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana
1st Edition
By Sam Ofori
May 31, 2023
This book examines regional development and planning in a poor administrative region of Ghana, assessing the effectiveness of the programmes and projects initiated to reduce poverty, disadvantage and deprivation. The author analyses the local context of institutions, planning ...
Mennonites and Post-Colonial African Studies
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By John M. Janzen, Harold F. Miller, John C. Yoder
May 31, 2023
This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community. The book chronicles the lives of twenty-two academics and practitioners whose work spans from the immediate post-colonial period in...
The De-Africanization of African Art: Towards Post-African Aesthetics
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By Denis Ekpo, Pfunzo Sidogi
May 31, 2023
This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage. Africanism, which is driven by a traumatic response to colonialism in Africa, has an almost unshakable stranglehold on the content...
The Pan-African Imperative: Revisiting Kwame Nkrumah's Vision for African Development
1st Edition
By Michael Williams
May 31, 2023
This book argues that the principles of Pan-Africanism are more important than ever in ensuring the liberation of the people Africa, those at home and abroad, and the rapid development of the African continent. The writings and practice of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first ...
Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text
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By Nduka Otiono, Chiji Akọma
January 09, 2023
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its ...
Inclusive Growth in Africa: Policies, Practice, and Lessons Learnt
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By Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Abebe Shimeles, Angela Lusigi, Ahmed Moummi
December 21, 2017
Inclusive Growth in Africa analyzes the concept of inclusion within the challenges facing Africa’s rapidly growing economies, where rising affluence for some has been accompanied almost everywhere with rising inequality. Using a combination of political economy analyses, sector studies ...
African Culture and Global Politics: Language, Philosophies, and Expressive Culture in Africa and the Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Danielle Sanchez
June 16, 2017
This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa's role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa ...
African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: Identity Quest
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By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Lindah Mhando
June 16, 2017
This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an ...
Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: International Agendas and African Contexts
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By Doris Buss, Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, Donna Sharkey, Obijiofor Aginam
June 16, 2017
This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some ...
Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa
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By Edward Shizha, Ali A. Abdi
May 24, 2017
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist ...
Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa: New Development Paradigms in the Era of Global Liberalization
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By Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
May 16, 2017
This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been ...
Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography
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By Clifford O. Odimegwu, John Kekovole
April 27, 2016
This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, ...