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Disrupting Africa

Author : Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009064223
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Africa written by Olufunmilayo B. Arewa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the digital era, many African countries sit at the crossroads of a potential future that will be shaped by digital-era technologies with existing laws and institutions constructed under conditions of colonial and post-colonial authoritarian rule. In Disrupting Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa examines this intersection and shows how it encompasses existing and new zones of contestation based on ethnicity, religion, region, age, and other sources of division. Arewa highlights specific collisions between the old and the new, including in the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, which involved young people engaging with varied digital era technologies who provoked a violent response from rulers threatened by the prospect of political change. In this groundbreaking work, Arewa demonstrates how lawmaking and legal processes during and after colonialism continue to frame contexts in which digital technologies are created, implemented, regulated, and used in Africa today.

Disrupting Africa

Author : Nnamdi Oranye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620779753
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Africa written by Nnamdi Oranye and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is ready for lift-off. The multiple challenges of the continent have fast become the catalyst for innovation on an astounding level - forming new technologies, new infrastructure, new ways of doing things, and a new narrative. Africa is a continent full of creativity, energy, and change - and much of it is thanks to the miracle of the mobile phone. In "Disrupting Africa: The rise and rise of African innovation," Nnamdi Oranye looks at increasing innovation in Africa, showing how modern technology and digital payment services bring it all together to create a new kind of infrastructure the world has simply not expected. The African narrative is changing. Today's Africa is an exciting, creative continent, packed with amazing potential. THIS SECOND EDITION CONTAINS THREE CHAPTERS FROM NNAMDI ORANYE'S FOLLOW UP BOOK, "TAKING ON SILICON VALLEY: HOW AFRICA'S INNOVATORS WILL SHAPE ITS FUTURE."

Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa

Author : Peter Arthur
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030406474
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Development in Africa written by Peter Arthur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how disruptive technologies and innovation underpin the attainment of a broader development agenda in Africa. Contributors show how distinctive forms of technological innovation can impact critical development processes. For example, disruptive technologies can deepen the ongoing democratic and governance waves in Africa, specifically in the area of contested elections. Similarly, innovations in agriculture, the environment and energy promote changes in value chain agriculture, and the use of sensors to manage e-waste and sustainable energy conservation are also transforming established practices. Furthermore, the role of disruptive technologies and innovation in education, health, financial services and the nature of paid work cannot be ignored. Individually and collectively, the authors discuss and highlight the mechanisms and initiatives that can contribute to the realization of the development goals of African countries, especially in a period where disruptive technologies are rapidly changing how things are done. As a result, this book, which represents one of the most recent systematic efforts to bring together dialogue on disruptive technologies in Africa, will be of particular use and benefit to a wide and an eclectic audience.

Taking on Silicon Valley

Author : Nnamdi Oranye
Publisher : Nnamdi Oranye
ISBN 13 : 9780620770316
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Taking on Silicon Valley written by Nnamdi Oranye and published by Nnamdi Oranye. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's Africa is an amazing place full of change and creativity, and its tech innovators are at the forefront of its transformation. That is why Silicon Valley has woken up to its massive potential and clearly has its eyes set on the continent. And not only is Silicon Valley interested, but China as well. But what will it mean when the tech "big boys" of Silicon Valley and China, who have repeatedly disrupted industries all over the world, set up shop in Africa? Will this bring positive or negative change? And how can African innovators not only compete with the world's tech giants but even take them on? These are the questions Nnamdi Oranye seeks to answer in his thought-provoking book, "Taking on Silicon Valley," a follow-up to his previous book, "Disrupting Africa: The Rise and Rise of African Innovation." Africa has an amazing future, and it is its innovators who will shape it. There is a way Africa can take on Silicon Valley. It requires for eyes to be opened to the past, the present, and the future; for dreams to be taken seriously; and for African innovators to keep steady on the path they are so passionately forging.

Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century

Author : Paul Zeleza
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2382340223
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Disruptions of the Twenty-first Century written by Paul Zeleza and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays interrogates the repositioning of Africa and its diasporas in the unfolding disruptive transformations of the early twenty-first century. It is divided into five parts focusing on America's racial dysfunctions, navigating global turbulence, Africa's political dramas, the continent's persistent mythologisation and disruptions in higher education. It closes with tributes to two towering African public intellectuals, Ali Mazrui and Thandika Mkandawire, who have since joined the ancestors.

Queer Activism in South African Education

Author : Dennis A. Francis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000637654
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Queer Activism in South African Education written by Dennis A. Francis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism. Not only does it add fresh insights to the existing research literature on gender, sexualities and schooling, it also underscores the valuable contributions of queer and transgender social movements, which have made influential legislative, teaching, learning and support contributions to education. Drawing on ethnographic research with queer and transgender activists, teachers, school managers, parents and school attending youth, the book provides everyday real-life quotes and observations offering a deeply critical contribution to the debates on gender and sexualities, education and activism. Using spatial and affect theories, it troubles the assumptions that frame this field of research to make a novel contribution to the national and international literature and research. The book provides research-based insights for thinking about and calls for informed action to challenging cisheteronormativity within and beyond schools.

Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work

Author : Sonia M. Tascón
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000766470
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work written by Sonia M. Tascón and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood, constructed, transmitted and used – this book shows the way social work knowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and the need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level. Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged white western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined within its professional discourse. This imposition of white western ways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms of knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific region, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary of over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological assumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received wisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological assumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners seeking to develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.

The Urban Question in Africa

Author : Pádraig Carmody
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119833612
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Question in Africa written by Pádraig Carmody and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanizing region. The predominantly rural continent is currently undergoing an “urban revolution” unlike any other, generally taking place without industrialization and often characterized by polarization, poverty, and fragmentation. While many cities have experienced construction booms and real estate speculation, others are marked by expanding informal economies and imploding infrastructures. The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition examines the imbalanced and contested nature of the ongoing urban transition of Africa. Edited and authored by leading experts on the subject, this unique volume develops an original theory conceptualizing cities as sociotechnical systems constituted by production, consumption, and infrastructure regimes. Throughout the book, in-depth chapters address the impacts of current meta-trends—global geopolitical shifts, economic changes, the climate crisis, and others—on Africa's cities and the broader development of the continent. Presents a novel framework based on extensive fieldwork in multiple countries and regions of the continent Examines geopolitical and socioeconomic topics such as manufacturing in African cities, the green economy in Africa, and the impact of China on urban Africa Discusses the prospects for generative urbanism to produce and sustain long-term development in Africa Features high-quality maps, illustrations, and photographs The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in geography, urban planning, and African studies, academic researchers, geographers, urban planners, and policymakers.

Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa

Author : Jeehye Kim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464815224
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa written by Jeehye Kim and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study—which includes a pilot intervention in Kenya—aims to further the state of knowledge about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural technologies (DATs) in Africa, with a focus on supply-side dynamics. The first part of the study is a stocktaking analysis to assess the number, scope, trend, and characteristics of scalable disruptive technology innovators in agriculture in Africa. From a database of 434 existing DAT operations, the analysis identified 194 as scalable. The second part of the study is a comparative case study of Africa’s two most successful DAT ecosystems in Kenya and Nigeria, which together account for half of Sub-Saharan Africa’s active DATs. The objective of these two case studies is to understand the successes, challenges, and opportunities faced by each country in fostering a conducive innovation ecosystem for scaling up DATs. The case study analysis focuses on six dimensions of the innovation ecosystem in Kenya and Nigeria: finance, regulatory environment, culture, density, human capital, and infrastructure. The third part of the study is based on the interactions and learnings from a pilot event to boost the innovation ecosystem in Kenya. The Disruptive Agricultural Technology Innovation Knowledge and Challenge Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together more than 300 key stakeholders from large technology companies, agribusiness companies, and public agencies; government representatives and experts from research and academic institutions; and representatives from financial institutions, foundations, donors, and venture capitalists. Scaling Up Disruptive Agricultural Technologies in Africa concludes by establishing that DATs are demonstrating early indications of a positive impact in addressing food system constraints. It offers potential entry points and policy recommendations to facilitate the broader adoption of DATs and improve the overall food system.

Leadership in Colonial Africa

Author : B. Jallow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137478098
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Leadership in Colonial Africa written by B. Jallow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken together, the chapters in this book represent a tapestry of leadership frameworks and cultures in colonial Africa. Scholars across disciplines explore the nature and evolution of leadership born of the colonial encounter between white colonialists and native Africans as well as the leadership that ultimately led to independence. Leadership in Colonial Africa highlights colonial disruptions of traditional leadership patterns in Africa and how African leaders, traditional and nationalist, reacted to these disruptions. Jallow examines the emergence of modern leadership cultures in Africa and argues that leadership studies theory may usefully be deployed in the study of African leadership

Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa

Author : Macsmart Ojiludu
Publisher : Catalyst Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946395573
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa written by Macsmart Ojiludu and published by Catalyst Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories by new and emerging writers from the continent of Africa all tackle the theme of 'Disruption' in ingenious ways and represent a range of genres, from Innocent Ilo's imaginative exploration of a post-apocalyptic African village, to Victor Forna's stylistic take on the destruction of humanity. Masiyaleti Mbewe's brutal tale of Apartheid and climate change through the eyes of a time-traveling cyborg sits alongside Genna Gardini's diverting allegory of companionship and an escaped exotic pet. The 2021 anthology features stories from across the continent, from Libya to Sierra Leone to Zambia to South Africa, and also includes a translated story, 'Armando's Virtuous Crime' by Najwa Bin Shatwan, translated from Arabic into English by Sawad Hussain.

Disrupting Hierarchy in Education

Author : Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807782424
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Hierarchy in Education written by Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book features rich examples of students and teachers, defined as learning partners, disrupting hierarchy in education by collaborating on social change projects. At the book’s core is Paulo Freire’s theorization of students and teachers working together toward co-liberation. Co-written by learning partners, each chapter in this collection highlights a social change project that puts Freire’s theories into action. Projects span a range of academic disciplines and geographical locations from K–12, university/college, and non-formal educational contexts. Appropriate as both a textbook and a primer on collaborative social change-making, Disrupting Hierarchy in Education offers inspiration and models of community-engaged learning programs from across the globe. Topics include community education, public writing, using media for popular education, adolescent and youth development, climate change education, peace and justice leadership development, revolutionary nonviolence, literacy teacher education, citizenship education, development of Latin American studies, palliative care, reflections on identity and subjectivity, anti-racism education, trauma-informed pedagogy, wellness, and art curation. Contributors include Gilberto Q. Conchas, Sarah Diem,Nyna Amin, Chief Baba Neil Clarke, Ute Kelly, Grácia Lopes Lima, Jing Lin, Matt Meyer, and Ashley Visagie.

Disrupting Shameful Legacies

Author : Claudia Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004377719
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Disrupting Shameful Legacies written by Claudia Mitchell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting Shameful Legacies: Girls and Young Women Speaking Back through the Arts to Address Sexual Violence is based on methodologies that seek to disrupt colonial legacies, by privileging speaking up and speaking back through the arts and visual practice to challenge the situation of sexual violence.

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Author : Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800412320
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa written by Leketi Makalela and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Everyday Urban Practices in Africa

Author : Nadine Appelhans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032466989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Urban Practices in Africa written by Nadine Appelhans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human settlements, development studies, and African studies.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Author : Walter Rodney
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731204
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.

Africa First!

Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776190319
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Africa First! written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment. Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and models fundamental transitions required in agriculture, education, demographics, manufacturing and governance and shows how these changes can be brought about. The challenges the continent faces – competing in a globalised world, delivering health care and education, feeding growing populations and grappling with climate change – demand far-sighted policies and determined leadership. Cilliers offers achievable solutions based on African realities. Authoritative and engaging, this work offers a roadmap for how Africa can catch up with the rest of the world.