Routledge African Studies
African Philosophical Currents
1st Edition
By John Murungi
August 14, 2020
The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community is not an exception and neither is any other philosophical community. There is a widespread notion ...
African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women
1st Edition
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By Jonathan Chimakonam, Louise du Toit
August 14, 2020
This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over ...
The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence: Democracy on Fire
1st Edition
By Stephen Magu
August 14, 2020
Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of ...
Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa
1st Edition
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By Ute Röschenthaler, Dorothea Schulz
December 10, 2019
This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The ...
Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Cacee Hoyer
October 25, 2018
Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters. ...
Global Africans: Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Cacee Hoyer
September 27, 2018
"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, ...
The New African Diaspora in the United States
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Adebayo Oyebade
September 27, 2018
Fast growing in population, African immigrants in the United States have become a significant force, to the point that the idea of a new African diaspora is now a reality. This thriving community has opened new arenas of scholarly discourse on Black Atlantic history beyond the trans-Atlantic slave ...
Africa in Black Liberation Activism: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
1st Edition
By Tunde Adeleke
August 23, 2018
This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925–1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and Walter Rodney (1942–1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became the foundation ...
Inclusive Growth in Africa: Policies, Practice, and Lessons Learnt
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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 ...