Routledge Contemporary Africa
Africa’s Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Chuka Onwumechili
December 13, 2021
This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa: Theories, Issues and Practices
1st Edition
By Nojeem A. Amodu
December 13, 2021
This book examines the conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa, expanding it’s frontiers beyond corporate reporting, voluntary corporate charity and community development projects.Taking a corporate law perspective on CSR, the author combines theory and practice to explain how...
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature
1st Edition
By Sule E. Egya
December 13, 2021
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial ecocriticism, the book pays attention to textual ...
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power
1st Edition
By Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
December 13, 2021
This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, ...
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon
1st Edition
By Manu Lekunze
September 30, 2021
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon’s security architecture to determine its resilience.The author examines the key actors involved in Cameroon’s security and evaluates the organisational structures, before analysing the different...
Introduction to Rwandan Law
1st Edition
By Jean-Marie Kamatali
September 30, 2021
This book explores key innovations in Rwandan law, exploring how the country has tried to combine the homegrown legal system with the civil law and common law legal systems to create a new hybrid legal system. The author explores the history of Rwandan law through the pre-colonial, to colonial...
Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis
1st Edition
By Oliver Nyambi
September 30, 2021
This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).Much of what has been written about the ...
National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ezra Chitando
September 30, 2021
This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration, and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Taking into account the complex nature of healing across moral, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual ...
State Fragility and Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Indicators and Interventions
1st Edition
By John Idriss Lahai, Isaac Koomson
September 30, 2021
This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes the ‘figure’ of fragile states as the unit the analysis and situates the study of fragility, governance and political adaptation within contemporary...
The Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon: The Role of Social Networks in Meeting Needs
1st Edition
By Nathanael Ojong
September 30, 2021
This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs.Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, the book provides a distinctive approach that draws on social network theory and insights from economic anthropology to shed light on how ...
Urban Issues in Rapidly Growing Cities: Planning for Development in Addis Ababa
1st Edition
By Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel
September 30, 2021
This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.Just like other developing cities, Addis Ababa is undergoing numerous natural and policy-driven changes. This book analyses the ...
African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World
1st Edition
By Fetson A Kalua
March 31, 2021
This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the "intellectual" within an African context, this ...