Routledge Contemporary Africa
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 ...
Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Oluwagbenga Michael Akinlabi
August 26, 2024
This book argues that strengthening policing, and the rule of law is pivotal to promoting human rights, equity, access to justice and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this book considers the principles of accountability, just laws, open government, and ...
Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa
1st Edition
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By Peter Neema-Abooki
August 26, 2024
This book explores quality assessment and enhancement in higher education in Africa to illustrate the need to develop quality practices in measuring effective education and continually search for permanent improvement. The book demonstrates that technological and socio-economic trends, innovations...
The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tendai Mangena, Oliver Nyambi, Gibson Ncube
August 26, 2024
This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and ‘newness’ are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. Going beyond the ordinariness of conventional political, human and social science methods, the book offers new and engaging ...
African Identities and International Politics
1st Edition
By Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
May 27, 2024
Using the lenses of realism, liberalism, the English School and constructivism, this book explains how the divisions and differences in African identities affect African international politics. This book explores the African condition in the twenty-first century. It analyses how geographical, ...