Routledge Studies in African Development
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research on African development from scholars both within and outside of Africa. It particularly promotes comparative and interdisciplinary research targeted at a global readership.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
African Values and Development: Rethinking Agenda 2063
1st Edition
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By Ezra Chitando, Eunice Kamaara
January 31, 2025
This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it. Arguing for an urgent need for rapprochement between African politicians and intellectuals, the book discusses how African values and identities can contribute to the successful ...
Children's Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya: Going Beyond Multi-dimensionality
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Ngutuku
January 29, 2025
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents children’s lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siaya, Kenya, which has some of the lowest indicators of child well-being, the book presents children’s complex lived experience from three interlinked ...
International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa: Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918
1st Edition
By George Forji Amin
December 18, 2024
This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. The book interrogates the economic and legal ...
Transformative Innovation for Sustainable Human Settlements: A South African Context
1st Edition
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By Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Sithembiso Lindelihle Myeni, Tshepang Mosiea
November 18, 2024
This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa. The TIP approach shows that addressing societal problems is not...
Basic Income for Disasters and Climate Change in Africa: Agrarian Risk Reduction and Adaptation
1st Edition
By Sara Bernardo
November 07, 2024
This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies. African agrarian societies are among those most severely impacted by disasters due to insufficient financial and technological resources to ...
Mineral Resource Governance and Human Development in Ghana
1st Edition
By Felix Danso
August 26, 2024
This book investigates how mineral resources can be governed to promote people-centred development in Ghana, focusing on the three main human development variables: living standards, education and health. Ghana is endowed with abundant mineral resources. The mineral sector accounts for about 14% of...
Social Protection, Pastoralism and Resilience in Ethiopia: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Zeremariam Fre, Bereket Tsegay, Araya M. Teka, Nicole Kenton, John Livingstone
August 26, 2024
This book investigates the role of social protection amongst African pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, with a particular focus on Ethiopia. Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security ...
Socioeconomic Shocks and Africa’s Development Agenda: Lessons and Policy Directions in a Post-COVID-19 Era
1st Edition
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By Evans Osabuohien, Gbadebo Odularu, Daniel Ufua, Romanus Osabohien
August 26, 2024
This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic affected all sectors of the economy, exposing substantial structural weaknesses and complexities ...
Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa: Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization
1st Edition
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By Fred Olayele, Yiagadeesen Samy
August 26, 2024
With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. In addition to triggering the most severe recession in nearly a century, the ...
Everyday Urban Practices in Africa: Disrupting Global Norms
1st Edition
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By Nadine Appelhans, Carmel Rawhani, Marie Huchzermeyer, Basirat Oyalowo, Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane
August 14, 2024
This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also imposed global paradigms and discourses that ...
Sustainable Community Development in Ghana
1st Edition
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By Isaac Kofi Biney, John Kwame Boateng, Paul Gary Nixon
June 28, 2024
This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post-COVID-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances. Through the voices of African researchers, it explores the different responses that local, subnational, and ...
Social Justice Innovation in Africa
1st Edition
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By Viljam Engström, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Laura Stark
June 12, 2024
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. In the twenty-first century, social innovation and entrepreneurship have attracted renewed attention as a way of promoting social justice and addressing ...