Routledge Contemporary Africa
Identification and Citizenship in Africa: Biometrics, the Documentary State and Bureaucratic Writings of the Self
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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 ...
Regional Development Poles and the Transformation of African Economies
1st Edition
By Benaiah Yongo-Bure
May 31, 2023
This book argues that the development of capital goods manufacturing industries in four relatively large African economies will create regional development poles, from which industrialization will spread to the smaller African countries. In this book, Benaiah Yongo-Bure explains the need for ...
Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa
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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 ...
Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa
1st Edition
By Sethulego Matebesi
May 31, 2023
This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa. Employing elements of trust, acceptance and elite interaction as a framework, this book critically investigates the underlying dynamics of community development ...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa: The Coloniality of Data
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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 ...