Routledge Contemporary Africa
Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation
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By Emmanuel O Oritsejafor, Allan D. Cooper
May 31, 2023
Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over ...
Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Socio-Political Transition from Mugabe to Mnangagwa
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By Oliver Nyambi, Tendai Mangena, Gibson Ncube
May 31, 2023
This book investigates how culture reflects change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwa’s 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country. Since Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017, he has been keen to defi ne his "...
Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
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By Elisha P Renne
May 31, 2023
This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization—specifically, the decline of the textile industry in Kaduna, Nigeria—and its consequences for deceased workers’ families. The author shows how the dead work in various ways for Christians and Muslims who ...
Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa: Perspectives from Hybrid Knowledge Production
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By Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Irina Turner, Abraham Brahima
May 31, 2023
This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and beyond. Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global sciences are culturally ...
Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self
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By Séverine Awenengo Dalberto, Richard Banégas
May 31, 2023
In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa ‘from below,’ asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state.Almost half of the population of the African continent is thought to lack a legal identity, and many...
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria: Barriers, Prospects and Strategies
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By Eghosa O. Ekhator, Servel Miller, Etinosa Igbinosa
May 31, 2023
This book explores Nigeria’s progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies. Despite all of Nigeria’s potential, and substantial oil ...
Indigenous Elites in Africa: The Case of Kenya's Maasai
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By Serah Shani
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world’s most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal situation, analysing how their culture hinders or ...
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans
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By Chielozona Eze
May 31, 2023
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that ...
Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations
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By Jacinta Maweu, Admire Mare
May 31, 2023
This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either ‘good’ (as ...
Mobility in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature in English: Crossing Borders, Transcending Boundaries
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By Magdalena Pfalzgraf
May 31, 2023
This monograph explores the concept of mobility in Zimbabwean works of fiction published in English between the introduction of the controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme and the end of the Mugabe era.Since 2000, Zimbabwe has experienced unprecedented levels of transnational out-migration ...
Modern Representations of Sub-Saharan Africa
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By Lori Maguire, Susan Ball, Sébastien Lefait
May 31, 2023
This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age. The period since the Second World War has seen profound changes in sub-Saharan Africa, notably because of decolonization, the creation of independent nation-states and the transformation...
Narrating Human Rights in Africa
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By Eleni Coundouriotis
May 31, 2023
Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of ...