Routledge Contemporary Africa
Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
1st Edition
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By John Sodiq Sanni, Madalitso Zililo Phiri
July 30, 2025
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a ...
African Women and Intellectual Leadership: Life Stories from Western Kenya
1st Edition
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By Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Humphrey J. Ojwang, Dannica Fleuss
June 27, 2025
This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors. Drawing on authentic first-hand accounts and narratives from key women in leadership positions, and those ...
African Constructions of China: Insights from Ghana and Kenya
1st Edition
By Kwaku Opoku Dankwah
May 06, 2025
Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China. Using Ghana and Kenya as case studies, the book outlines the role of diverse state and non-state actors in defining what China represents to the region, and how it compares to Western ...
Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict
1st Edition
By Norita Mdege
January 30, 2025
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict...
Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
January 30, 2025
As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of betting halls mushroomed. This book investigates this growing social phenomenon, providing a holistic analysis of football ...
The European Union and Regional Integration in East Africa: Collective and Individual State Priorities Compared
1st Edition
By Harrison Kalunga Mwilima
December 19, 2024
This book examines European countries’ engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC). In addition to their usage of the European Union (EU), states employ other bilateral initiatives to channel their regional aid to the EAC. The book explores differing national ...
Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area
1st Edition
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By Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
December 18, 2024
This book explores relations between states in the Africa–European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors. The book reconsiders the ways ...
Reimagining Nigeria's Educational System: Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Balogun
December 18, 2024
This book assesses the challenges within the Nigerian educational system and provides a concrete plan to revitalize the low-performing system by strengthening high-stakes testing at all levels. In Nigeria, many citizens believe that the solution to the country’s low performance in education is to ...
Indigenous Peacebuilding in South Sudan: Delivering Sustainable Peace Through Traditional Institutions, Customs and Practices
1st Edition
By Winnifred Bedigen
October 08, 2024
This book explores the indigenous peace cultures of the major ethnic groups in South Sudan (Dinka, Nuer, Anuak and Acholi) and analyses their contribution to resolving the civil war. The book utilises qualitative narrative inquiry ethnographic methods to explore the indigenous institutions and ...
Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe
1st Edition
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By Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara, Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
August 26, 2024
This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the ...
Inequality in Zambia
1st Edition
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By Caesar Cheelo, Marja Hinfelaar, Manenga Ndulo
August 26, 2024
Coming together from across several disciplines, the contributors to this book reflect on the considerable problem of inequality in Zambia, comparing it with other countries both in the region and more broadly. The World Bank consistently ranks Zambia among the countries with the highest levels of...
Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints
1st Edition
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By Bruce Mutsvairo, Nnamdi T Ekeanyanwu
August 26, 2024
Communication is changing rapidly around the world, particularly in Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only to improve not only interpersonal communication but also the state of their financial well-being. This book investigates these transformations in Nigeria’s ...