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By John Sodiq Sanni, Madalitso Zililo Phiri
March 05, 2024
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and domination, 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 ...
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By Maurice N. Amutabi, Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Humphrey J. Ojwang, Dannica Fleuss
February 29, 2024
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 ...
By Kwaku Opoku Dankwah
December 12, 2023
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 ...
By Norita Mdege
October 27, 2023
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...
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
October 27, 2023
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 ...
By Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
September 25, 2023
This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by ...
By Lokangaka Losambe
September 25, 2023
This book chronicles the rise and the development of postcolonial agency since Africa’s encounter with Western modernity through African and African diaspora literature and film. Using African and African diasporic imaginaries (creative writings, autobiographies, polemical writings, and filmic ...
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By Goran Hyden, Kazuhiko Sugimura, Tadasu Tsuruta
September 25, 2023
Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation. This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely ...
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By Ignatius Chukwumah
September 25, 2023
This book examines the types, discourse modes, and effects of sex jokes in different African contexts, in a range of different cultural forms, from the internet to music, books, films, advertising, and images, thus filling the existing void in literature on the subject. Arguing that sex jokes are ...
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By Felix Adamu Nandonde, John L. Stanton
September 25, 2023
This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent. Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market...
By Joseph A. Balogun
September 20, 2023
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 ...
By Harrison Kalunga Mwilima
August 23, 2023
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 ...