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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Health and Development in Africa

This book explains the context of disease, wellbeing and medical practices in Africa, and importantly, how these are influenced by religion (including African ways of belief), spirituality, and faith-base…

Michael Kottoh, Wilmot Allen

African Sovereign Wealth Funds and New Directions in State Capitalism

This book explores the evolution of sovereign wealth funds in Africa and their increasing significance for facilitating transaction-based economic development. How sovereign investment can address sustain…

Agriculture and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Resilience and Recovery Toward Sustainable Futures

This book, presented in parts, offers a comprehensive and coherent in-depth overview of the state and condition of African agriculture, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa. Comprising a range of voices of Afri…

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…

Marco Di Nunzio

Unjust Developments

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?African cities ha…

Marco Di Nunzio

Unjust Developments

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?African cities ha…

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 …

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…

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, …

Samuel Oyewole

Utilitarianism in Outer Space

This book showcases Nigerian and South African experiences on space politics, policy and strategy vis-à-vis their development and security aspirations, while contributing to the broader African and the Gl…

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…

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…

Coups d'Etat in 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…

Sean Gossel

The Promise and Peril of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book explores the developmental prospects, risks, and implications of foreign direct investment (FDI) in sub-Saharan African (SSA). Despite the region's significant potential, it continues to face co…

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…