Routledge Contemporary Africa
Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa
1st Edition
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By Ernest Toochi Aniche, Ikenna Mike Alumona, Inocent Moyo
May 31, 2023
This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa. Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the oldest trade and monetary integration ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa: The Coloniality of Data
1st Edition
By Everisto Benyera
May 31, 2023
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting ...
The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta
1st Edition
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By Tanure Ojaide, Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega
May 31, 2023
This book examines the depiction of the Delta region of Nigeria through literature and other cultural art forms. The Niger Delta has been thrust into the global limelight due to resource extraction and conflict, but it is also a region with a rich culture, environment, and heritage. The ...
Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities
1st Edition
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By Ebenezer Durojaye, Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, Charles Ngwena
January 09, 2023
This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent years, many Africans still encounter challenges, for ...
Africa in a Multilateral World: Afropolitan Dilemmas
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By Albert Kasanda, Marek Hrubec
January 09, 2023
The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole. The first part focuses on the assumptions ...
Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
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By Beschara Karam, Bruce Mutsvairo
January 09, 2023
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the ...
Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film
1st Edition
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By Naomi Nkealah, Obioma Nnaemeka
January 09, 2023
This book investigates how the intersection between gendered violence and human rights is depicted and engaged with in Africana literature and films. The rich and multifarious range of film and literature emanating from Africa and the diaspora provides a fascinating lens through which we can ...
Higher Education and Policy for Creative Economies in Africa: Developing Creative Economies
1st Edition
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By Roberta Comunian, Brian J. Hracs, Lauren England
January 09, 2023
The book reflects on the role of the creative economies in a range of African countries (namely Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda). Chapters explore how creative economies emerge and can be supported in African countries. The contributors focus on two key dimensions: the role of higher...
The East African Community: Intraregional Integration and Relations with the EU
1st Edition
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By Jean-Marc Trouille, Helen Trouille, Penine Uwimbabazi
January 09, 2023
This book brings together African and European experts from a variety of disciplines to examine the origins and current state of the East African Community (EAC). Over the course of the book, the authors analyse the rich tapestry of intraregional relations in East Africa, the EAC’s similarities ...
Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency
1st Edition
By Pauline Ada Uwakweh
December 30, 2022
This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna,...
Tonga Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe
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By Kirk Helliker, Joshua Matanzima
December 15, 2022
Based on extensive original fieldwork, this book examines the complex and diverse livelihoods of Zimbabwe’s Tonga people as they have developed over time, including in the wake of the country’s post- 2000 political and economic crises. Despite being endowed with natural resources, the northwest ...
Health and Care in Old Age in Africa
1st Edition
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By Pranitha Maharaj
August 31, 2022
This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent. The first part of the book sets the scene for the volume, profiling the demographic and health ...