Routledge Contemporary Africa
Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis
1st Edition
By Oliver Nyambi
September 30, 2021
This book explores the unique contributions of various forms of post-2000 life-writings such as the autobiography, epistles, and biographies, to discourses about the nature and socio-politics of what has become known as the Zimbabwean crisis (c. 2000–2009).Much of what has been written about the ...
National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
Edited
By Ezra Chitando
September 30, 2021
This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration, and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Taking into account the complex nature of healing across moral, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual ...
State Fragility and Resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Indicators and Interventions
1st Edition
By John Idriss Lahai, Isaac Koomson
September 30, 2021
This book focuses on the indicators of fragility and the resilience of state-led interventions to address them in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyzes the ‘figure’ of fragile states as the unit the analysis and situates the study of fragility, governance and political adaptation within contemporary...
The Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon: The Role of Social Networks in Meeting Needs
1st Edition
By Nathanael Ojong
September 30, 2021
This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs.Based on fieldwork in Cameroon, the book provides a distinctive approach that draws on social network theory and insights from economic anthropology to shed light on how ...
Urban Issues in Rapidly Growing Cities: Planning for Development in Addis Ababa
1st Edition
By Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel
September 30, 2021
This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.Just like other developing cities, Addis Ababa is undergoing numerous natural and policy-driven changes. This book analyses the ...
African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World
1st Edition
By Fetson A Kalua
March 31, 2021
This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the "intellectual" within an African context, this ...
Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa
1st Edition
By Pier Paolo Frassinelli
March 31, 2021
This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa.Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border ...
Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa: Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Atkeyelsh Persson
March 31, 2021
This book examines environmental sustainability and inclusive economic growth, providing in-depth analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) in large-scale agriculture in Ethiopia.In most African states, arable land and other natural resources play a pivotal role for economic growth and ...
The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army: Enduring Dilemmas of Transitional Justice
1st Edition
By Joseph Otieno Wasonga
March 31, 2021
This book interrogates the sharp contrast that emerged between demands of the norms of international rule of law and the interests of conflict resolution at a local level in northern Uganda. Examining how the nature and character of complex conflict situations like that of northern Uganda confounds...
Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction
1st Edition
By Tendai Mangena
December 18, 2020
This book addresses the ways in which writers deploy the trope of contested criminality to expose Zimbabwe's socially and politically oppressive cultures in a wide range of novels and short stories published in English between 1994 and 2016. Some of the most influential authors that are ...
Contesting Inequalities, Identities and Rights in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Data D. Barata
December 18, 2020
This book examines the relationship between inequalities and identities in the context of an unprecedented state advocacy of human rights with a distinct emphasis on (ethnic) group rights in post-civil war Ethiopia. The analysis is set against the background of a dramatic state remaking by a ...
African Language Digital Media and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Abiodun Salawu
September 30, 2020
While some academic attention has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analyses the online presence of African language ...