View All Book Series

Routledge Contemporary Africa

63 Series Titles


Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe

Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe

1st Edition

Edited By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
January 30, 2025

As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of betting halls mushroomed. This book investigates this growing social phenomenon, providing a holistic analysis of football ...

African Media and Communication Foundational Conversations

African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations

1st Edition

Edited By Viola Milton, Winston Mano
December 24, 2024

This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an ...

Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe Identity, Community, and Change

Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Identity, Community, and Change

1st Edition

Edited By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
December 19, 2024

Marriage has always occupied a profound cultural and social significance in Zimbabwean society, but the forms and meanings attached to marriage have changed in recent decades. Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe provides a social analysis of the institution, highlighting how it is changing and ...

The European Union and Regional Integration in East Africa Collective and Individual State Priorities Compared

The European Union and Regional Integration in East Africa: Collective and Individual State Priorities Compared

1st Edition

By Harrison Kalunga Mwilima
December 19, 2024

This book examines European countries’ engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC). In addition to their usage of the European Union (EU), states employ other bilateral initiatives to channel their regional aid to the EAC. The book explores differing national ...

Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area

Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area

1st Edition

Edited By Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
December 18, 2024

This book explores relations between states in the Africa–European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors. The book reconsiders the ways ...

Reimagining Nigeria's Educational System Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing

Reimagining Nigeria's Educational System: Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing

1st Edition

By Joseph A. Balogun
December 18, 2024

This book assesses the challenges within the Nigerian educational system and provides a concrete plan to revitalize the low-performing system by strengthening high-stakes testing at all levels. In Nigeria, many citizens believe that the solution to the country’s low performance in education is to ...

Higher Education Transformation in Africa A Quest for Epistemological Rupture

Higher Education Transformation in Africa: A Quest for Epistemological Rupture

1st Edition

Edited By Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Logan Govender, Dennis Zami Atibuni
November 05, 2024

This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa. The book considers the multifaceted challenges facing higher education in the continent and uses the concept of ...

Indigenous Peacebuilding in South Sudan Delivering Sustainable Peace Through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices

Indigenous Peacebuilding in South Sudan: Delivering Sustainable Peace Through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices

1st Edition

By Winnifred Bedigen
October 08, 2024

This book explores the indigenous peace cultures of the major ethnic groups in South Sudan (Dinka, Nuer, Anuak and Acholi) and analyses their contribution to resolving the civil war. The book utilises qualitative narrative inquiry ethnographic methods to explore the indigenous institutions and ...

Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

1st Edition

Edited By Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
August 26, 2024

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the ...

Inequality in Zambia

Inequality in Zambia

1st Edition

Edited By Caesar Cheelo, Marja Hinfelaar, Manenga Ndulo
August 26, 2024

Coming together from across several disciplines, the contributors to this book reflect on the considerable problem of inequality in Zambia, comparing it with other countries both in the region and more broadly. The World Bank consistently ranks Zambia among the countries with the highest levels of...

Media and Communication in Nigeria Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints

Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints

1st Edition

Edited By Bruce Mutsvairo, Nnamdi T Ekeanyanwu
August 26, 2024

Communication is changing rapidly around the world, particularly in Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only to improve not only interpersonal communication but also the state of their financial well-being. This book investigates these transformations in Nigeria’s ...

Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Oluwagbenga Michael Akinlabi
August 26, 2024

This book argues that strengthening policing, and the rule of law is pivotal to promoting human rights, equity, access to justice and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book considers the principles of accountability, just laws, open government, and ...

13-24 of 63
AJAX loader