Routledge Contemporary Africa
The East African Community: Intraregional Integration and Relations with the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Marc Trouille, Helen Trouille, Penine Uwimbabazi
January 09, 2023
This book brings together African and European experts from a variety of disciplines to examine the origins and current state of the East African Community (EAC). Over the course of the book, the authors analyse the rich tapestry of intraregional relations in East Africa, the EAC’s similarities ...
Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency
1st Edition
By Pauline Ada Uwakweh
December 30, 2022
This book makes a significant addition to the field of literary criticism on African Diaspora literatures. In one volume, it brings together the novels of eight transnational African Diaspora women writers, Yaa Gyasi, Chika Unigwe, Chimamanda Adichie, Imbole Mbue, NoViolet Bulawayo, Aminatta Forna,...
Tonga Livelihoods in Rural Zimbabwe
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirk Helliker, Joshua Matanzima
December 15, 2022
Based on extensive original fieldwork, this book examines the complex and diverse livelihoods of Zimbabwe’s Tonga people as they have developed over time, including in the wake of the country’s post- 2000 political and economic crises. Despite being endowed with natural resources, the northwest ...
Health and Care in Old Age in Africa
1st Edition
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By Pranitha Maharaj
August 31, 2022
This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent. The first part of the book sets the scene for the volume, profiling the demographic and health ...
Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature
1st Edition
By Jay Rajiva
May 06, 2022
This book uses the conceptual framework of animism, the belief in the spiritual qualities of nonhuman matter, to analyze representations of trauma in postcolonial fiction from Nigeria and India. Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature initiates a conversation between ...
Development-induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa: The Kampala Convention
1st Edition
By Romola Adeola
April 01, 2022
Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa. Following independence, many African states embarked on large-scale development projects such ...
Africa’s Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges
1st Edition
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By Chuka Onwumechili
December 13, 2021
This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has focused on international ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Law in Africa: Theories, Issues and Practices
1st Edition
By Nojeem A. Amodu
December 13, 2021
This book examines the conception of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Africa, expanding it’s frontiers beyond corporate reporting, voluntary corporate charity and community development projects.Taking a corporate law perspective on CSR, the author combines theory and practice to explain how...
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature
1st Edition
By Sule E. Egya
December 13, 2021
Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained concentration on the Nigerian experience in postcolonial ecocriticism, the book pays attention to textual ...
Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power
1st Edition
By Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
December 13, 2021
This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, ...
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon
1st Edition
By Manu Lekunze
September 30, 2021
Complex Adaptive Systems, Resilience and Security in Cameroon comprehensively maps and analyses Cameroon’s security architecture to determine its resilience.The author examines the key actors involved in Cameroon’s security and evaluates the organisational structures, before analysing the different...
Introduction to Rwandan Law
1st Edition
By Jean-Marie Kamatali
September 30, 2021
This book explores key innovations in Rwandan law, exploring how the country has tried to combine the homegrown legal system with the civil law and common law legal systems to create a new hybrid legal system. The author explores the history of Rwandan law through the pre-colonial, to colonial...