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  • Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa

    A New Postcolonial Critique

    by Fidelis Allen, Luke A. Amadi, James Olusegun Adeyeri, John Ebute Agaba, Biko Agozino, Olayinka Akanle, Adebisi Alade, Solomon Awuzie, Fred Ekpe F. Ayokhai0, Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo1, Jairos Gonye2, Yakubu Moses Joseph3, Nick T. C. Lu4, Fouad Mami5, Nathan Moyo6, Mike Odey7, Victor Ikechukwu Ogharanduku8, Matthew Dayi Ogali9, Emmanuel Steelman Okla0, Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen1 ...
    Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocates for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Mike Odey ...
    Series series Global Africa
    A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination and in the midst of so many natural resources?Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa provides new understandings of the persistent issue of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for policy frameworks to help African governments alleviate ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Fortunes of Africa

    A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

    by Martin Meredith ...
    A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.Africa has been coveted for its rich natural resources ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Tomorrow's Battlefield

    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    by Nick Turse ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that Africa is the battlefield of tomorrow, today." In Tomorrow’s Battlefield, award-winning ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Child Soldiers in Africa

    by Alcinda Honwana ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution

    Edited by Henry F. Carey, Stacey M. Mitchell ...
    There have been many political dilemmas that impose structural constraints on the effort to legalize, judicialize, and criminalize normatively deviant behavior in international politics. The annual costs of these tribunals has peaked at approximately $400 million, of which $140 million is allocated to the ICC, the latter now having spent $1 billion in its first decade of existence. What has been ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Public Private Partnerships in Nigeria

    by George Nwangwu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This first major book on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Nigeria explores the legal, policy and strategic issues involved in the structuring and execution of PPP projects in Nigeria. The book goes beyond the toolkit approach of other available resources to blend the theoretical analysis of concepts with practical step-by-step guides for consummating projects. The book adopts a ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Managing Africa's Natural Resources

    Capacities for Development

    Edited by K. Hanson, C. D'Alessandro, F. Owusu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems. They examine dynamics of leadership, governance, criminality, structural transformation, as well as emerging issues such as green growth. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Burning Shores

    Inside the Battle for the New Libya

    by Frederic Wehrey ...
    A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi's tyrannical reign.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The International Criminal Court and Peace Processes in Africa

    Judicialising Peace

    by Line Gissel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    The book investigates how involvement by the International Criminal Court (ICC) affects efforts to negotiate peace. It offers an interpretive account of how peace negotiators and mediators in two peace processes in Uganda and Kenya sought to navigate and understand the new terrain of international justice, while also tracing how and why international decision-making processes interfered with the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Minority Rights and the National Question in Nigeria

    Edited by Uyilawa Usuanlele, Bonny Ibhawoh ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria. Nigeria provides a framework for examining the central paradox in post-colonial nation building projects in Africa – the tension between majority rule and minority rights. The liberal democratic model on which most African states were founded at ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa

    Lost in Transition

    by Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, James M. Dorsey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the theme of global transitions with a cross-regional comparative study of two areas experiencing change over the past three decades: Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Political transitions in Asia have been the subject of interest in academic and policy-making communities recently as there are encouraging signs of democratization in countries that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD