Routledge African Studies
Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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, ...
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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....