Routledge Contemporary Africa
Governance of Pastoralism in Africa: Frameworks, Challenges, and Prospects
1st Edition
By Jane Ezirigwe
May 05, 2027
This book provides a timely and policy-relevant examination of the governance of pastoralism in Africa, positioning pastoral systems within wider debates on natural resource governance, conflict, sustainability, and rural development. It argues that fragmented, exclusionary, and weakly implemented ...
Reflecting Africa: Literature, Culture, and Society
1st Edition
By Tanure Ojaide
April 07, 2027
Reflecting Africa: Literature, Culture, and Society considers how African writers are affected by their culture and society and how they use their works to respond. Written by leading scholar and poet Tanure Ojaide, the book argues that African authors are a product of their local environment, ...
Women’s Nationalism in Colonial Nigeria: An Intellectual History of Non-Political Self Determination
1st Edition
By Maria Martin
February 23, 2027
This book considers the contribution made by Nigerian women activists to the development of African nationalist thought. Focusing on the Federation of Nigerian Women’s Organizations, the book demonstrates how women in the 1950s articulated a non-political ideology as a means of achieving ...
Civil Society in Zimbabwe: Insights from Matabeleland
1st Edition
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By Mandlenkosi Mpofu, Dion Nkomo, Kirk Helliker
November 24, 2026
This book considers the historical and spatial dimensions of civil society in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland region, an area suffering from severe development and democratic deficits over many decades. Transcending an organisational conception of civil society and a simplistic state-civil society dualist ...
Language Matters in Namibia: History, Development, and Contemporary Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Collen Sabao, Petrus Angula Mbenzi, Gerda-Elisabeth Wittmann
November 23, 2026
Language Matters in Namibia investigates the diversity of Namibia’s ethnolinguistic communities and cultures, considering how languages intersect with questions of nationhood, memory, identity and decoloniality. Namibia is a country characterised by multilingualism, with 13 officially recognised ...
Legalization of Human Rights in Africa: The Institutionalization of Laws Prohibiting State-Sanctioned Violence and Torture
1st Edition
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By Stacey M. Mitchell, Veraline Nchotu, Lem Lilian Atanga
October 16, 2026
Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting ...
Russia and China in Africa: Towards a New World Order?
1st Edition
By Bohumil Doboš
September 04, 2026
As both China and Russia seek to extend their global influence and challenge the liberal world order, Africa is becoming increasingly critical to contemporary geopolitics. This book argues that it is within Africa that we can best understand the synergies and conflicts between Russian and Chinese ...
Ethiopia's Urban Transformation: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Thomas Betschart
August 24, 2026
This book investigates the ways in which Ethiopia’s urban landscape is being reshaped by an infrastructure boom in megaproject corridors and industrial parks. Drawing on extensive immersive fieldwork, the book considers how citizens negotiate, appropriate, or resist these engineered spaces. Tracing...
African Fans of European Football: Cultural Globalisation in Kenya and Zimbabwe
1st Edition
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Solomon Waliaula
July 20, 2026
This book examines the increasing influence of European football in African societies, considering the processes and significance of being a fan and what this means for the wider globalisation of popular culture. Focussing on fan cultures in Kenya and Zimbabwe, the book argues that instead of ...
The Horn of Africa since 2018: Continuities, Transformations, and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Jan Záhořík, Aleksi Ylönen
July 20, 2026
This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes. Bringing together a group of experienced and younger scholars from...
The Economy of Resourcefulness in Kinshasa: Informality, Small-Scale Trade, and Social Networks
1st Edition
By Sylvie Ayimpam
June 16, 2026
How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary ...
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
1st Edition
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By viola c. milton, Winston Mano
May 22, 2026
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an ...