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1. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa

   Five Decades of Misrule

   Edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Bringing together scholars from a wide array of disciplines - including anthropology, economics, history, sociology, and political science - this volume addresses the problems of the regime change and state failure in Africa in the context of the global economy, but from a specifically African...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Fallou Ngom

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Darfur Conflict

   Geography or Institutions?

   By Osman Suliman

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Although it is often simplified as an "ethnic conflict" in popular media, the current crisis in Darfur can only be superficially defined across ethnic lines. Any long-term solution to the conflict must also address the underlying social and environmental influences such as changing resource...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development

   Lessons from the Niger Delta

   Edited by Okechukwu Ukaga, Ukoha O. Ukiwo, Ibaba Samuel Ibaba

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   The Niger Delta Region has in the past two decades experienced protracted violent conflicts. At the roots of these violent conflicts are the genuine quests of the people for sustainable development that is based on social justice, equity, fairness and environmental protection. Although richly...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Development, Modernism and Modernity in Africa

   Edited by Augustine Agwuele

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This anthology examines the "unfinished project of modernity" with respect to the unrealized potential for economic, social, and political development in Africa. It also shows how, facing the consequences of modernism, Africans in and out of the continent are responding to these unfinished projects...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
6. Music, Performance and African Identities

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Tyler Fleming

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa....

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
8. Environment and Economics in Nigeria

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Adam Paddock

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   This volume gathers contributors across a wide range of disciplines to explore the relationship between the environment, economics, and development in Nigeria from the twentieth century to the present, examining issues such as violence, health, and contemporary concerns about sustainability and...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Close to the Sources

   Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

   By Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe

   Series: Routledge African Studies

   European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Capitalism vs. Collectivism: The Colonial Era to 1945

    African American Political Thought

    Edited by Marcus Pohlmann

    Series: Routledge African Studies

    Published April 10th 2003 by Routledge