1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of African Development
This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development – past, present and future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continent’s development – including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development, and development policy and practice.
The volume draws on the expertise of over 60 of the world’s leading scholars to provide a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the key opportunities and challenges that confront Africa, and how such issues are being addressed. Arranged by key themes, the handbook provides not only a historical understanding of the past, but also political perspectives on the future. The chapters provide critically informed analyses of their topics by drawing upon the latest conceptual viewpoints and applied experiences in Africa in the form of case studies to offer a comprehensive examination of the opportunities, challenges, key debates and future prospects.
This handbook is an invaluable state-of-the-art overview and reference concerning many different aspects of Africa’s development, which will be of interest to academics in all fields of African studies, and also academics and students working in cognate disciplines such as development studies, geography, history, politics and economics.
SECTION 1: Introduction and Context
Chapter 1: Introduction
Tony Binns, Etienne Nel and Kenneth Lynch
Chapter 2: African Perspectives on Development
Richard Vokes
Chapter 3: The African Idea of Development
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
SECTION 2: History
Chapter 4: Colonial Africa
Erik Green
Chapter 5: Post-Independence Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Tanya Lyons And David Jolley
SECTION 3: Social Perspectives
Chapter 6: Demographic Characteristics, Migration and Employment-Seeking Behaviour: A Case Study of Ghana
Joseph K. Assan, Dinar D. Kharisma and Afia A. Adaboh
Chapter 7: Gender and Development in Africa: A 50-Year Journey from Women In Development To Gender Justice
Hazel Barrett
Chapter 8: Inequality in Africa
Philip Nel
Chapter 9: Education
David Stephens
Chapter 10: Children
Nicola Ansell
Chapter 11: Diaspora
Ben Page and Claire Mercer
SECTION 4: Health
Chapter 12: Health Challenges
Kenneth Lynch
Chapter 13: The African HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Is the End in Sight?
Hazel Barrett
Chapter 14: Food Insecurity and Famine
Stephen Devereux
Chapter 15: Access to Essential Medicines in Africa
Aarti Patel
SECTION 5: Environment
Chapter 16: Water Resources and Development
Clive Agnew
Chapter 17: Wetlands
Alan Dixon
Chapter 18: Conservation and People
Fiona Nunan
Chapter 19: Ecosystem Services in Africa
Rebecca Kariuki, Rob Marchant and Simon Willcock
SECTION 6: Development Issues
Chapter 20: African Development: ‘Hopeless Africa’, ‘Africa Rising’, or Somewhere In Between?
Tony Binns And Etienne Nel
Chapter 21: Regional Integration
Olivier Walther
Chapter 22: The Millennium Development Goals
John Briggs
Chapter 23: Africa’s Natural Resource Corner and BRICS
Ian Taylor
Chapter 24: Aid and Debt
John Serieux
Chapter 25: Faith in Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emma Tomalin And Adriaan Van Klinken
SECTION 7: Rural Africa
Chapter 26: Land Tenure
Jon D. Unruh
Chapter 27: Deagrarianisation and Depeasantisation in Africa
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Chapter 28: Rural Development
Simon Milligan and Sam Kareithi
Chapter 29: Rural Marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Current Issues
Gina Porter
Chapter 30: Rural–Urban Interaction and Development in Africa
Kenneth Lynch
SECTION 8: Urban Africa
Chapter 31: The Politics of Urban Management and Planning in African Cities
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M. Macarthy, Braima Koroma and Alexandre Apsan Frediani
Chapter 32: Housing in Africa
Kamna Patel
Chapter 33: Perspectives on Urban Employment in Africa: The Case of Informal Solid Waste Management in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Danny Simatele
Chapter 34: Food Security in African Cities: Linking Urban Food Production with Good Urban Governance
Alec Thornton
Chapter 35: The Future and Africa’s Cities
Garth Myers
SECTION 9: Economic Perspectives
Chapter 36: Africa’s Extreme Uneven Development Worsens During Global Economic Turmoil
Patrick Bond
Chapter 37: Financial Sector Development, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Africa
David Fielding
Chapter 38: Agriculture
Roy Maconachie
Chapter 39: Mining
Roy Maconachie
Chapter 40: Supporting the SMME Economy of Sub-Saharan Africa: A Role for Business Incubation
Christian M. Rogerson
Chapter 41: Africa’s Tourism Economy: Uneven Progress and Challenges
Christian M. Rogerson and Jayne M. Rogerson
Chapter 42: Transport
Gina Porter
Chapter 43: Land-Grabbing in Africa
Simon Batterbury and Frankline Ndi
Chapter 44: The Economics of And Prospects for China’s Africa Return
Lauren A. Johnston
SECTION 10: Political Perspectives on Africa’s Development
Chapter 45: Government: African Development Beyond ‘Good Governance’
David Booth
Chapter 46: Conflict and Post-Conflict
Hazel Cameron
Chapter 47: Human Rights in Africa: Impasse, Backsliding, Or Forwards?
Peris Jones
Chapter 48: The International Criminal Court in Africa
Jonathan Hobson
Chapter 49: Corruption
Philip Nel
SECTION 11: Conclusion
Chapter 50: Conclusion: Looking Forward
Tony Binns, Etienne Nel and Kenneth Lynch
Biography
Tony Binns is Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Kenneth Lynch is a Reader in Geography in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Etienne Nel is a Professor of Geography at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and Visiting Research Fellow, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
"This Handbook represents a distinctively authoritative compendium of expertise addressing contemporary Africa. Attention focuses on the diverse conditions prevailing today, explanations of how they have arisen and are understood in theoretical and practical terms, and what future prospects are likely to hold. The attention to African perspectives, often distinguished from those of outsiders, as manifest in most development theory, international policy discourse and policy, is particularly welcome. The essays are clearly written and will provide an invaluable guide to those wishing to understand Africa and its place in the world." - David Simon, Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden and Professor of Development Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
