Routledge Contemporary Africa
Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Ignatius Chukwumah
August 14, 2020
Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African ...
Political Culture, Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria
1st Edition
By Kalu Kalu
August 14, 2020
Demonstrating how political culture facilitates or distorts political preferences and political outcomes, this book explores how the historical development of social conditions and the current social structures shape understandings and constrain individual and collective actions within the Nigerian...
Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe
1st Edition
Edited
By Erasmus Masitera, Fortune Sibanda
August 14, 2020
In recent years, the Zimbabwe crisis rendered the country and its citizens to be a typical case of ‘failed states’, the world over. Zimbabwean society was and is still confronted with different challenges which include political, economic and social problems. Attempts to overcome these challenges ...
The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whose News?
1st Edition
By Lena von Naso
August 14, 2020
News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media ...
The Development of African Capital Markets: A Legal and Institutional Approach
1st Edition
By Boniface Chimpango
December 12, 2019
Most capital markets that have been established in developing economies like Africa have struggled to make progress over two decades down the line. Development of African Capital Markets explores why these markets have remained underdeveloped and discusses a possible development theory that can be ...