Routledge Contemporary Africa
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
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
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 ...