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Contemporary Africa: Challenges and Opportunities: African Histories and Modernities

Editat de T. Falola, E. Mbah
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 aug 2014
60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137438911
ISBN-10: 1137438916
Pagini: 261
Ilustrații: XVI, 261 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:2014
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria African Histories and Modernities

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Africa; Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah PART I: COLONIAL AND NEOCOLONIAL LEGACIES 1. Mau Mau Inventions and Reinventions; Mickie Mwanzia Koster 2. Race and Social Islands in Kenya's Urban Spaces; Brillian Besi Muhonja 3. The Second World War and Africa's Socio-Economic Infrastructures: a Case Study of the Nigerian Railroad System; Tokunbo A. Ayoola 4. The Cold War and the Emergence of Economic Divergences: Africa and Asia Compared; S. U. Fwatshak PART II: TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENTS IN ECONOMIES AND CULTURES 5. Africa's Debt Burden and HIPC Initiative: Cameroon, from Challenges to Opportunity; Augustine Ayuk 6. The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Poverty Alleviation in Cameroon; Consoler T. Teboh 7. Music and the Politics of Culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS Experience: Implications for 'Post-Apartheid' Discourse; Austin C. Okigbo 8. A Parallel Evolution: The Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Apartheid, and American Civil Rights; Myra Ann Houser 9. The Migration of Professionals from Africa: Assessing the Impact of 'Brain Drain' from the Continent; J K Mapulanga-Hulston Conclusion: An Africa that Works; Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah

Notă biografică

Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola, University of Manchester, UKAugustine E. Ayuk, Clayton State University, USAS. U. Fwatshak, University of Jos, NigeriaMyra Ann Houser , Howard University, USAJackie Mapulanga-Hulston, Curtin Law School, AustraliaBesi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USAMickie Mwanzia Koster, University of Texas at Tyler, USAAustin C. Okigbo, University of Colorado at Boulder, USAConsoler T. Teboh, Saint Cloud State University, USA