Routledge African Studies
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
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By Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, Abebe Shimeles, Nadège Désirée Yaméogo
April 27, 2016
The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa’s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African ...
Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Kwame Essien
October 12, 2015
There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which ...
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Jessica Achberger
September 29, 2015
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their ...
Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa: Five Decades of Misrule
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By Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o
May 21, 2015
Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African...
Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Niger Delta
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By Okechukwu Ukaga, Ukoha O. Ukiwo, Ibaba Samuel Ibaba
April 09, 2014
The Niger Delta Region has in the past two decades experienced protracted violent conflicts. At the roots of these violent conflicts are the genuine quests of the people for sustainable development that is based on social justice, equity, fairness and environmental protection. Although richly ...
Environment and Economics in Nigeria
1st Edition
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By Toyin Falola, Adam Paddock
October 14, 2013
This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and ...
Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa
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By Augustine Agwuele
September 20, 2013
This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects...
Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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By Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell
September 20, 2013
This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are environment and landscape, and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as ...
Music, Performance and African Identities
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By Toyin Falola, Tyler Fleming
September 20, 2013
Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa....
Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
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By Toyin Falola, Fallou Ngom
November 14, 2012
This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues...
The Darfur Conflict: Geography or Institutions?
1st Edition
By Osman Suliman
September 05, 2012
Although it is often simplified as an "ethnic conflict" in popular media, the current crisis in Darfur can only be superficially defined across ethnic lines. Any long-term solution to the conflict must also address the underlying social and environmental influences such as changing resource ...
Close to the Sources: Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy
1st Edition
By Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe
March 15, 2011
European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of ...