View All Book Series

Routledge Contemporary Africa

63 Series Titles


Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

1st Edition

By Jay Rajiva
May 06, 2022

This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between ...

Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa The Kampala Convention

Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa: The Kampala Convention

1st Edition

By Romola Adeola
April 01, 2022

Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa. Following independence, many African states embarked on large-scale development projects such ...

Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia

Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia

1st Edition

By Data D. Barata
December 18, 2020

This book examines the relationship between inequalities and identities in the context of an unprecedented state advocacy of human rights with a distinct emphasis on (ethnic) group rights in post-civil war Ethiopia. The analysis is set against the background of a dramatic state remaking by a ...

61-63 of 63
AJAX loader