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  • The Bargain Sector

    by Kate Meagher ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001: Does the non-farm sector offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise has come to play a central role in rural livelihood and accumulation strategies. This apparent dynamism has attracted favourable attention from development thinkers and policy-makers, who have identified non-farm ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Overcoming Boko Haram

    Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, David Ehrhardt, Sherine El Taraboulsi, Khadija Gambo Hawaja, Zainab Usman, Murray Last, Ibrahim Haruna Hassan, Kate Meagher, Abubakar Kawu Monguno0, M. Sani Umar1, Ibrahim Umara2, Abdourahmane Idrissa3, Julie G. Sanda4 ...
    It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Africa's Informal Workers

    Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa

    by Gunilla Andrae, Björn Beckman, Alison Brown, Ebbe Prag, Ignasio Malizani Jimu, Michal Lyons, Owusu Boampong, Karen Tranberg Hansen, David Jordhus-Lier, Doctor Winnie Mitullah, Kate Meagher, Wilma Nchito, Suzanne Scheld ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond.Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on household 'coping strategies' and individual agency, addressing the growing number of collective ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Creed & Grievance

    Muslim-Christian Relations & Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria

    by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Kate Meagher, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, Philip Ostien, Rachael Diprose, David Ehrhardt, Adam Higazi, Aminu Gamawa, Jibrin Ibrahim0, Jimam Lar1, Karel Chromy2 ...
    In northern Nigeria, high levels of ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development, accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the country. Externally, fears have also been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Globalisation, Economic Inclusion and African Workers

    Making the Right Connections

    Edited by Kate Meagher, Laura Mann, Maxim Bolt ...
    This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid, challenging ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Temptations of Power

    Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... Read more

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  • Capitalism Hits the Fan

    The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A BREATHTAKINGLY CLEAR ANALYSIS OF TODAY’S ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISIS In this updated edition of Capitalism Hits the Fan, Professor Wolff explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis. This book chronicles one economist’s growing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Women and the War on Boko Haram

    Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

    by Hilary Matfess ...
    Series series African Arguments
    For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram's campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • George Soros On Globalization

    by George Soros ...
    Never before have we stood to gain or lose as much from understanding the international economy. Scandals plague the world's largest corporations, the American trade deficit has soared to historic heights, and international organizations from the World Bank to the WTO are accused of being inefficient and corrupt. Is our global economy as unhealthy, and as unjust, as we think? And what can be done ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of Pakistan

    by Stephen P. Cohen ...
    With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward determining what the world looks like ten years from now. The Future of Pakistan ... Read more

    $29.99 USD