1st Edition

West African Worlds Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development

By Reginald Cline-Cole, Elsbeth Robson Copyright 2005
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region.

    Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa.

    Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development in
    West African Worlds

    Reginald Cline-Cole
    West Africa’s Political Economy in the 21st Century: Retrospect and Prospect
    Adebayo Olukoshi
    Portraying West Africa's Children: Moral Panics and Globalisation
    Elsbeth Robson
    Fictional Worlds, Symbolism and Struggles of (Under-)Development? Kolawole Omotoso’s ‘The Combat’
    Abioseh Michael Porter
    Urban Bias, Redistribution, and State Collapse: The Lessons of Sierra Leone
    J. Barry Riddell
    Expanding the frontiers of West African Integration: Economic and Security Regionalism
    David J Francis
    Transformations in Regional Agriculture and Family Farming
    Camilla Toulmin and Bara Guèye
    The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: ‘Social capital’ and targeted development in West Africa
    Fergus Lyon and Gina Porter
    Changing Time, Changing Times: Work, Time and Space in Britain and West Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries
    Ken Swindell
    State-Building, National Integration, Gender and Economic Development in Emergent Regional Democracies
    Jimmy D. Kandeh and Joyce A. Kannan
    Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso
    Simon P.J.Batterbury
    Conclusion: West African futures?
    Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson

    Biography

    Reginald Cline-Cole, Elsbeth Robson