Routledge Contemporary Africa
Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Pier Paolo Frassinelli
March 31, 2021
This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa.Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border ...
Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa: Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Atkeyelsh Persson
March 31, 2021
This book examines environmental sustainability and inclusive economic growth, providing in-depth analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) in large-scale agriculture in Ethiopia.In most African states, arable land and other natural resources play a pivotal role for economic growth and ...
The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Enduring Dilemmas of Transitional Justice
1st Edition
By Joseph Otieno Wasonga
March 31, 2021
This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda. Examining how the nature and character of complex conflict situations like that of northern Uganda confounds...
Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction
1st Edition
By Tendai Mangena
December 18, 2020
This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories published in English between 1994 and 2016. Some of the most influential authors that are ...
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 ...
African Language Digital Media and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Abiodun Salawu
September 30, 2020
While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analyses the online presence of African language ...
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First
1st Edition
By Terry Leahy
September 30, 2020
At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still suffering from stunting and malnutrition. Soil degradation and poor crop yields are ubiquitous. Projects are almost always aimed at helping local ...
Open Access to Knowledge in Nigeria: A Framework for Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Kunle Ola
September 30, 2020
This book provides an analysis of the legal and policy dimensions of open access to research, education and public sector information with a focus on Nigeria. Kunle shows how open access has evolved across the world and how such initiatives could be implemented in Nigeria and other countries in the...
Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist
1st Edition
By Denielle Elliott
September 30, 2020
This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scientist Davy Kiprotich Koech. As a collaborative life story project, it privileges African voices and retellings, re-centring the voice of African ...
Unfolding Narratives of Ubuntu in Southern Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Julian Müller, John Eliastam, Sheila Trahar
September 30, 2020
Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, that is, a person is a person through persons.This edited collection illustrates the power of fictionalised representation in reporting research ...
African Science Education: Gendering Indigenous Knowledge in Nigeria
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamaine Abidogun
August 14, 2020
Based on interrogation and review of historical and current cultural and indigenous knowledge combined with extensive curriculum and classroom analysis, this book identifies how indigenous science gender roles may be utilized to provide a more gender balanced and indigenous centered learning ...
China, Africa and Responsible International Engagement
1st Edition
By Yanzhuo Xu
August 14, 2020
China’s increasing involvement in Africa is a controversial and hotly debated issue. On the one hand, China has brought significant economic and political opportunities to the continent with large amounts of investment and infrastructure. On the other hand, however, China’s interests in Africa - ...