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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…

Economic Development and Human Rights in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

This book explores the connections between economic development and the protection of human rights. Drawing on experiences from Sub-Saharan African countries, the book demonstrates how various economic ac…

Religion, Gender, and Sustainable Development in East and Southern Africa

"Religion is messy because it is double-ledged - It promotes and impedes development, sometimes concurrently. Add gender issues and the quest for sustainable development and the complexity of human l…

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…

Tim Zajontz

The Political Economy of China's Infrastructure Development in Africa

"Theoretically informed and enriched by fieldwork, this book sheds light on the sometimes-murky depths of Chinese infrastructure engagement in Africa. Using Tanzania and Zambia to ground the research…

Meenu

Rethinking Development in Africa: Social Protection as a Challenge to Neo-Liberal Policies

Ideas about tackling persistent extreme poverty in Africa have grown rapidly over the last decade, largely under the umbrella term social protection¿ (Ellis and Maliro, 2013:576). Ferguson (2015) and Elli…

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 meta…

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…