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This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects drawing on (a) the customary, (b) the novelty of modernity, and (c) positive aspects of modernism, for the organization of their societies and the enrichment of their lives even as they contend with the negative aspects of modernity and modernism.

Inclusive Growth in Africa analyzes the concept of inclusion within the challenges facing Africäs rapidly growing economies, where rising affluence for some has been accompanied almost everywhere with rising inequality. Using a combination of political economy analyses, sector studies and econometric models, the contributors delve into a range of areas associated to the new realities on the continent. Topics covered include issues of disability, corruption, capital flight, and their implications for economic sustainability. The book comprises of a rich array of essays on socio-economic inclusion in Africa by authors drawn from academia, African think tanks and international organizations.

This edited volume widens perspectives on cultural inventiveness in Africa by exploring forms of cultural entrepreneurship since the 1990s. Contributions illustrate the diversity of these initiatives by presenting the biographies of female and male entrepreneurs who venture into domains as diverse as religious proselytism, politics, tourism, media, music and funeral organization.

This edited collection systematically addresses issues about the nature of conflicts surrounding land, its distribution and its usage, and natural resources including the management of minerals in Africa, through interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives. It is intended to make a significant contribution to both academic and policy debates.

This volume facilitates a closer examination of the conceptual framing of conflict sexual violence from the multiple perspectives of researchers, community service organizations, and policy workers. Rather than "mapping" the various dynamics of sexual violence and conflict, itself an important task, the volume explores conceptual gaps and emerging research directions.

This book offers an in-depth African perspective to the major issues in demographic discourse in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides comprehensive analysis of sub-Saharan African censuses, profiling demographic changes, trends, patterns and consequences in the region. Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, accessible, simple and topical, this volume is perfectly suited to researchers, students and lecturers who are interested in understanding sub-Saharan African population dynamics and issues.

To benefit from the transformation that has accompanied urbanization in many regions of the world, African policymakers must embark on a planned urban development that extends the benefits of an inclusive and green growth to all segments of the population. This book puts urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africäs development agenda.

This volume presents a wide array of essays that offer insight into the intersection of expressive culture, daily life, and global politics through analyses of power, colonialism, modernity, and change in Africa and the African diaspora. These essays challenge us to reconsider the role of culture in the making of larger discourses of politics in a global setting.

Critical postcolonial theorists ask why Africa is failing to extricate itself from poverty and underdevelopment. This book fills a large and long-standing gap in the study of African development, taking on a critical postcolonial approach to examine, investigate and discuss challenges faced by African countries in their quest for development. The approach focuses on the intersection of educational paradigms, sustainable economic development methodologies and democratic political engagement theories to determine possibilities for economic growth and social development in Africa.

This book explores competing discourses on youth culture in Africa and the diaspora. Contributors examine constructions of African/black youth cultural identities in literature, popular culture, and social media. Students and scholars interested in youth and black studies will find this volume to be an excellent resource.

This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and conservation. It sheds light not just on the environmental history of Nigeria - a crucial, paradigmatic case in its own right - but also offers insights into these issues as they manifest themselves throughout the developing world.

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media.

Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African perspective, arguing that the underdevelopment of the African economy is linked to the underdevelopment of the continents'' nation states.

Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop's influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

This volume explores the concepts of "environment" and "landscape" in colonial and postcolonial discourse about Africa, analysing the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas, and capitalist agriculture.

This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and conservation. It sheds light not just on the environmental history of Nigeria - a crucial, paradigmatic case in its own right - but also offers insights into these issues as they manifest themselves throughout the developing world.

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This volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various disciplines, how Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora, and why Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery as African Diaspora studies gains momentum. The contributors - coming from various geographical backgrounds and a broad range of academic disciplines - engage with each other to create cross-regional dialogues about the overlaps and intersections between Pan-Africanism, diaspora studies and reverse migrations, providing an analysis of Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora from political, social and economic perspectives and in a global context.

This volume explores Africäs changing role in the global economy, including the new Asian presence in Africa, and in particular, the rising power of China. It shows that while Africa may often be left out of international politics, its markets are intricately tied to the rest of the world, and examines both the positive and negative aspects of these new and changing relationships. Asserting African agency in the development narrative, as well as its influence on the global historical narrative, the contributors point the way forward for African development in the twenty-first century.

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media.

This study asks a fundamental theoretical and empirical question--re-posing and re-contextualizing in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa: can markets generate the institutions on which they depend for their effectiveness, or do these require the active intervention of a strong, purposeful and democratic state?

Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world. Still, it has often been limited to studies of isolated instances within African countries, with little-to-no connection to greater patterns of international power and violence. This volume explores the historical and present local and international dimensions of the myriad security crises in Africa, from the role of international relations during liberation to multination efforts against piracy.

Providing comprehensive coverage of major and minor figures in the history of African American Politics, from Colonial America to the present, this collection includes a vast array of original articles, speeches, statements and documents.

This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities