African Development – alle Bücher und CDs, Seite 2

Kingsley Ekene Amaechi,

Rethinking Philosophy for Education, Society and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Across many parts of the world, education is increasingly being shaped by demands for practicality, immediate economic returns, and direct employability. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in Sub-Sah…

Every Tone A Testimony: An African American Aural History

Charlotte Touati

Eritrea's Gold Rush

Exposes how global capital props up one of Africa's most dangerous dictators and thus helps fuel violence and instability throughout Africa.

Climate Ethics in Africa

The book is a groundbreaking collaborative effort authored by a diverse team of academic scholars and experts. Contributors hail from various corners of Africa and one esteemed scholar from Asia. This dyn…

Keyi Tang

Power Over Progress

Why do some communities have access to roads and schools while others go without for decades? Keyi Tang's Power Over Progress investigates how external accountability and domestic political competition sh…

Marco Di Nunzio

Unjust Developments

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Marco Di Nunzio

Unjust Developments

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Bronwen Everill

Africonomics

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of CambridgeFor centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix…

Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order. This volume explores the role played by the oil crises in this transformation, f…

Rita Kesselring

Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province

Rita Kesselring provides a compelling ethnographic account of the wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for metal …

Jay Pitter

Black Public Joy

From one of North America's most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people's audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.How much safety, …

Johan Höglund

The American Climate Emergency Narrative

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for t…

Coups d'Etat Twenty-First Century Africa

Explores why coups, particularly in post-independence Africa, persist despite decades of progress towards democratization and stability.Arguing that there is a decline of democratic institutions and the r…

Janeen Guest

China's Infrastructure Aid and Investment

This monograph offers a detailed examination of the role of Chinese infrastructure development aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the economic growth of three key African countries: Nigeria, Ethio…

David Omotoso Stovall

Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

David Omotoso Stovall

Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

Jr. Kretzschmar

The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…

Amy Rushton

Re-Reading Tragic Africa

Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of 'tragedy' in relation to global narratives about Africa and within fiction by writers from the continent. It…

Jr. Kretzschmar

The Emergence and Development of American English

"Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic standpoint, illustrated with real-life examples of language in use. Authorita…