Author : Roy Grinker
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557866851
Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155250204X
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author : Axel Harneit-Sievers
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1906387338
Any book on Africa-China relations which steers away from hegemonic western perspectives and paradigms is welcome. This is one such book. Issa G. Shivji, Mwalimu Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Dar es Salaam --
Author : Busani Mpofu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789201772
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Author : Firoze Madatally Manji
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0954563735
This publication presents African social, historical and cross continental perspectives on Chinese invlovement in Africa.
Author : Rama Salla Dieng
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772582743
Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The collection aims to fill a gap on feminist parenting in the existing literature by bringing timely post-Western perspectives. More specifically, the anthology's main contribution is its explicit focus on feminist parenting from the margins to the global periphery: from Africa and its diaspora, from the Global South to Europe and America. The 27 parents from diverse backgrounds, walks of life, and countries gathered in this anthology share powerful responses to the above questions by narrating their experiences of some of the challenges, dilemmas, promises, and compromises of parenting with a feminist perspective. The volume is one of the first collections published with first-person essays describing very touching, beautiful, and sometimes painful stories of what it means and more importantly what it costs to become a feminist parent with an intersectional approach. In doing so, the authors of this book aim at (re)claiming parenting as a necessarily political terrain for subversion, radical transformation, and resistance to patriarchal oppression and sexism.
Author : Peter Mitchell
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759102590
From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. More than a passive vessel manipulated by external empires, the African experience has been a complex mix of internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical and economic factors, and regular interaction with outsiders. Peter Mitchell attempts to outline these factors over the long period of modern human history, to find their commonalities and development over time. He examines African interconnections through Egypt and Nubia with the Near East, through multiple Indian Ocean trading systems, through the trans-Saharan trade, and through more recent incursion of Europeans. The African diaspora is also explored for continuities and resistance to foreign domination. Commonalities abound in the African experience, as do complexities of each individual period and interrelationship. Mitchell's sweeping analysis of African connections place the continent in context of global prehistory and history. The book should be of interest not only to Africanists, but to many other archaeologists, historians, geographers, linguists, social scientists and their students.
Author : Melina C. Kalfelis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800731116
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. In Africa, NGOs are not remote, but familiar players, situated in the midst of cities and communities. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans. Its contributions are immersed in the pasts, presents and futures of personal encounters, memories, decision-making and politics.
Author : Sally Falk Moore
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813915050
African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107009391
"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a briad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in oue sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
