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]).
Ethnicity, Inequality, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Tade O. Okediji
May 26, 2026
This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore the links between ethnicity, inequality, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows how ethnic identity influences all aspects of life in African societies, defining access to political institutions and economic resources, ...
Chinese Development Aid and Africa: What, How, and Why
1st Edition
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By Elling Tjønneland
February 16, 2026
This book investigates China’s evolving development aid within Africa, considering how it compares with and interacts with trends and shifts in the global aid system and aid from traditional Western donor countries. It examines the role of Chinese aid within China’s broader political, economic, and...
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
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Social Justice Innovation in Africa
1st Edition
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By Viljam Engström, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Laura Stark
October 27, 2025
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 ...
Sustainable Community Development in Ghana
1st Edition
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By Isaac Kofi Biney, John Kwame Boateng, Paul Gary Nixon
October 27, 2025
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 ...
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
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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 ...