Routledge Contemporary Africa
Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa
1st Edition
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By Peter Neema-Abooki
August 26, 2024
This book explores quality assessment and enhancement in higher education in Africa to illustrate the need to develop quality practices in measuring effective education and continually search for permanent improvement. The book demonstrates that technological and socio-economic trends, innovations...
The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tendai Mangena, Oliver Nyambi, Gibson Ncube
August 26, 2024
This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science methods, the book offers new and engaging ...
African Identities and International Politics
1st Edition
By Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
May 27, 2024
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, ...
Combatants in African Conflicts: Professionals, Praetorians, Militias, Insurgents, and Mercenaries
1st Edition
By Simon David Taylor
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the different types of combatants in conflicts in Africa, exploring the fine lines between what might be classified as a militia in one conflict, a rebel in another, or a terrorist in a third. Drawing on the work of Carl von Clausewitz, this book provides a conceptually stable ...
Developing Creative Economies in Africa: Spaces and Working Practices
1st Edition
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By Brian J. Hracs, Roberta Comunian, Lauren England
May 27, 2024
Bringing together the experience of academics and practitioners, this book discusses creative economies in Africa, focusing on changing dynamics related to working, co-working and clustering. The contributors in this volume examine how strategies and opportunities such as co-working spaces, ...
Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change
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By Winston Mano, Loubna El Mkaouar
May 27, 2024
Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and authoritative perspectives, including both historical and contemporary digital developments. It ...
The Failure of the International Criminal Court in Africa: Decolonising Global Justice
1st Edition
By Everisto Benyera
May 27, 2024
This book investigates the relationship between the International Criminal Court and Africa (the ICC or the Court), asking why and how the international criminal justice system has so far largely failed the victims of atrocities in Africa. The book explores how the Court degenerated from a very ...
Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa
1st Edition
By Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
September 25, 2023
This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by ...
Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film: A Study in Globalectics
1st Edition
By Lokangaka Losambe
September 25, 2023
This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic ...
Rethinking African Agriculture: How Non-Agrarian Factors Shape Peasant Livelihoods
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By Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura, Tadasu Tsuruta
September 25, 2023
Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely ...
Sexual Humour in Africa: Gender, Jokes, and Societal Change
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By Ignatius Chukwumah
September 25, 2023
This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are ...
Supermarket Retailing in Africa
1st Edition
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By Felix Adamu Nandonde, John L. Stanton
September 25, 2023
This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent. Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market...