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Trends in African Studies

Author : Jacob U. Gordon
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634838627
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Trends in African Studies written by Jacob U. Gordon and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book Trends in African Studies is a response to the challenge of the paucity of materials on the history and the development of African Studies in a global context. The available substantive materials on the subject are limited, thus creating a gap in related literature. Yet, the field of African Studies continues to generate global interest, academic recognition and respectability. This book documents the current state of African Studies and emerging trends in the field. It covers the development of African Studies in a global context: African Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Australia, the United States of America and Canada, South America and the Caribbean, and it analyses the trends present in each continent. An important contribution of this book to the field of African Studies is the development of an African Studies index designed for measuring the quality of African Studies and ranking. Useful information, suggested multidisciplinary research methods in African Studies and an appendix which includes a researched list of African Studies journals and organisations related to African Studies are found within its pages.

African Studies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799830209
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book African Studies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global interest in African studies has been rapidly growing as researchers realize the importance of understanding the impact African communities can have on the economy, development, education, and more. As the use, acceptance, and popularity of African knowledge increases, it is crucial to explore how this community-based knowledge provides deeper insights, understanding, and influence on such things as decision making and problem solving. African Studies: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world. Highlighting a range of topics such as indigenous knowledge, developing countries, and public administration, this publication is an ideal reference source for sociologists, policymakers, anthropologists, government officials, economists, instructors, researchers, academicians, and graduate-level students in a variety of fields.

Manufacturing African Studies and Crises

Author : Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Codesria
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing African Studies and Crises written by Tiyambe Zeleza and published by Codesria. This book was released on 1997 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded 'Special Commendation' in the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1998. The intellectual liberation of the study of Africa is the battle cry of this forceful book. The author is one of Africa's younger scholars, in the forefront of research and thinking about the role of African scholars, and the ownership and state of African Studies; and winner of The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa 1994. He describes this book as an interrogation of African Studies, its formulations and fetishes, theories and trends, possibilities and pitfalls. He argues that, as a discursiveformation, African Studies is immersed in the contexts and configurations of the western epistemological order; and the crisis in African Studies in North America and Britain reflects changing cultural policies as a result of the shifting ethnic and gender composition o fclassrooms, tansformations in the global positions of these countries, and the crisis of liberal values. The study has been highly recommended by such distinguished African scholars as Professors Mahmood Mamdani, Ali Mazrui, V.Y. Mudimbeand Adebayo Olikosh.

Comparative Area Studies

Author : Ariel Ira Ahram
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190846372
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Area Studies written by Ariel Ira Ahram and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Comparative Area Studies, the editors and contributors are motivated by two basic convictions: first, that intensive regional research remains indispensable to the social sciences; and second, that this research risks becoming marginalized in the absence of concerted efforts to link it to disciplinary concepts and theories that have relevance beyond a single region.

Recent Trends in African Economic History

Author : Margaret Jean Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Recent Trends in African Economic History written by Margaret Jean Hay and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agricultural productivity in Africa

Author : Benin, Samuel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896298817
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Agricultural productivity in Africa written by Benin, Samuel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in African agriculture. It brings together analyses of a unique mix of data sources and evaluations of public policies and development projects to recommend ways to increase agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is timely in light of the recent and ongoing growth recovery across the continent. The good news is that agricultural productivity in Africa increased at a moderate rate between 1961 and 2012, although there are variations in the rate of growth in land, labor, and total factor productivities depending on country and region. Differences in input use and capital intensities in agricultural production in the various farming systems and agricultural productivity zones also affect advancements in technology. One conclusion based on the book’s research findings derives from the substantial spatial variation in agricultural productivity. For areas with similar agricultural productivity growth trends and factors, what works well in one area can be used as the basis for formulating best-fit, location-specific agricultural policies, investments, and interventions in similar areas. This finding along with others will be of particular interest to policy- and decisionmakers.

Economic Growth and Development in Africa

Author : Horman Chitonge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317575296
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Economic Growth and Development in Africa written by Horman Chitonge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent’s history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike. This book analyses the Africa Rising narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives, offering a critical assessment of the explanations given for the poor economic growth and development performance in Africa prior to the millennium and the dramatic shift towards the new Africa. Bringing in perspectives from African intellectuals and scholars, many of whom have previously been overlooked in this debate, the book examines the construction of Africa’s economic growth and development portraits over the years. It looks at two institutions that play a vital role in African development, providing a detailed explanation of how the World Bank and the IMF have interpreted and dealt with the African challenges and experiences. The insightful analysis reveals that if Africa is rising, only 20-30 per cent of Africans are aboard the rising ship, and the main challenge facing the continent today is to bring on board the majority of Africans who have been excluded from growth. This book makes the complex, and sometimes confusing debates on Africa’s economic growth experience more accessible to a wide range of readers interested in the Africa story. It is essential reading for students and researchers in African Studies, and will be of great interest to scholars in Development Studies, Political Economy, and Development Economics.

Trends and Advances in Education and Management in Africa

Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789789975594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (755 download)

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Mining and Social Transformation in Africa

Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135051984
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mining and Social Transformation in Africa written by Deborah Fahy Bryceson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than three decades of economic malaise, many African countries are experiencing an upsurge in their economic fortunes linked to the booming international market for minerals. Spurred by the shrinking viability of peasant agriculture, rural dwellers have been engaged in a massive search for alternative livelihoods, one of the most lucrative being artisanal mining. While an expanding literature has documented the economic expansion of artisanal mining, this book is the first to probe its societal impact, demonstrating that artisanal mining has the potential to be far more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes. Delineating the paradoxes of artisanal miners working alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, Mining and Social Transformation in Africa concentrates on the Tanzanian experience. Written by authors with fresh research insights, focus is placed on how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments and social class differentiation. The work lives and associated lifestyles of miners and residents of mining settlements are brought to the fore, asking where this historical interlude is taking them and their communities in the future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation, all arise.

Online Journalism in Africa

Author : Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134109067
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Online Journalism in Africa written by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comprehensive research tool that can both stand the test of time as well as offer researchers (particularly those in the economically developed Global North) models for cross-cultural comparative research. The essays here deploy either a wide range of evidence or adopt a case-study approach to engage with contemporary developments in African online journalism. This book thus makes up for the gap in cross-cultural studies that seek to understand online journalism in all its complexities.

Global Africans

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134849680
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Global Africans written by Toyin Falola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing. Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore issues that encourage a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity and identity. As our notions about what it means to be black or of African heritage change as a result of globalization, it is important to reassess how these issues are currently developing, and the origins from which these issues developed. Global Africans is an important and insightful book, useful to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly of African studies, sociology, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.

Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography

Author : Clifford O. Odimegwu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131799972X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Continuity and Change in Sub-Saharan African Demography written by Clifford O. Odimegwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

West African Studies Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2020 Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926431430X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book West African Studies Africa's Urbanisation Dynamics 2020 Africapolis, Mapping a New Urban Geography written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, based on the Africapolis geo-spatial database (www.africapolis.org) covering 7 600 urban agglomerations in 50 African countries, provides detailed analyses of major African urbanisation dynamics placed within historical, environmental and political contexts.

Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures

Author : Susanne Gehrmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783962031404
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures by : Susanne Gehrmann

Download or read book Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures written by Susanne Gehrmann and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book volume engages the emergent ways and exercises of world-making in eastern African literatures and cultures. It also includes how the world comes to eastern Africa as well as how eastern Africa speaks to the world. Writers within the region have come up with novel commentaries on diverse social issues. Artists and other users have invented new forms of expression through digitalization. The structure and content of this literature and cultural conversations, in line with modernity, has exhibited a fluidity that calls for the critical appraisal carried out in this book. Therefore, this book volume centralises the emergence of new patterns of engagement in the literatures and cultures of the region. Taking cue from the cultural transformations, technological advancements and political influences, the volume raises questions on politics, conflict and war, and the evolving genres and canon. The book crosses language barriers beyond English and includes critical attention to texts written in the Swahili and French languages. The chapters aim to give a broad overview of the writings and cultural expressions in the eastern African region, including novels, films, short stories, theatre, poetry, oral, and digital performances. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: An Overview of Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures Oduor Obura Part One: The Evolving Literary Canon Literary Disruptions of the Ugandan Canon in Selected Ugandan Short Stories Edgar Nabutanyi A Discipline under Siege: Interrogating the Place of Literature in English in the Secondary School Curriculum in Tanzania Obala Musumba Cartographies of Killing: Transnational Drones in Eye in the Sky Jana Fedtke Performing in the Cyber Space: The Online Mchongoano Battles Kimingichi Wabende Mobile Phones in the Public Space: Communication as Contextual Cultural Practice in Kenya James Ogone Part Two: Conflict, Politics, and War Narrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literat

The Future of Africa

Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303046590X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Africa written by Jakkie Cilliers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.

Developmental Trends in Kenya

Author : Christopher Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental Trends in Kenya written by Christopher Allen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy

Author : Albert Kasanda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351209906
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy written by Albert Kasanda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and relevance for today’s Africa. Kasanda denounces conventional approaches considering these either as a subcategory of general philosophy or as the ideological attempts of individual African leaders and professional philosophers, such as Nkrumah, Nyerere, Senghor, Fanon, Hountondji and Towa. On the contrary, Kasanda defines contemporary African social and political philosophy as an inclusive reflection of African communities with regard to power and equitable modes of social and political organization in order to promote human excellence for everyone. This perspective also includes the criticism of social and political concepts in use within African communities. The author postulates that contemporary African social and political philosophy relies on the legacy of precolonial African societies, as well as on the contribution of the diaspora throughout the world. Contemporary African social and political philosophy is rooted in the daily lives of African people, and it expresses itself through multiple modalities including, for example, art, religion, literature, music and the policy of urbanization of African cities. This book sheds new light on debates concerning topics such as ethnophilosophy, negritude, pan-Africanism, democracy, African civil society, African cultures, and globalization. It aims to ward off the lethargy that strikes African social and political philosophy, taking a renewed and critical approach.