Routledge Contemporary Africa
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
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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
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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...
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
1st Edition
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 ...
Greening Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
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By Ralph Luken, Edward Clarence-Smith
May 31, 2023
This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.The book critically examines the concept of greening industrialisation and describes the progress and data challenges of monitoring the Sustainable ...