Routledge African Studies
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...
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’s creative heritage.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
1st Edition
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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 ...
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages
1st Edition
By Ernest N. Emenyonu
September 30, 2021
This book looks at the trends in the development of the Igbo novel from its antecedents in oral performance, through the emergence of the first published novel, Omenuko, in 1933 by Pita Nwana, to the contemporary Igbo novel.Defining "Igbo literature" as literature in Igbo language, and "Igbo novel"...
Misrepresenting Black Africa in U.S. Museums: Black Skin, Black Masks
1st Edition
By P.A. Mullins
June 30, 2021
This book is an examination of race, Black African objects, identity, museums at the turn of the 19th century in the U.S. via the history of the earliest collectors of Black African objects in the U.S.. Misrepresenting Black Africa in American Museums explores black identity as a changing, nuanced ...
Reporting African Elections: Towards a Peace Journalism Approach
1st Edition
By Joseph Adebayo
June 30, 2021
The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa’s media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced information, particularly during election processes.Reporting African Elections examines the impact of media ...
Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World: The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora
1st Edition
By Robert Hanserd
March 31, 2021
This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "Gold Coast" entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of contested...
Mohammed VI's Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development
1st Edition
By Eve Sandberg, Seth Binder
March 31, 2021
This book analyzes the economic development choices initiated by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI since he ascended the throne in 1999 and situates those choices in the political economy development literature.Examining the policies enacted by the King, the authors argue that over the past twenty years ...
Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
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By Akinloyè Òjó, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono
September 30, 2020
This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in ...