Farming Systems of the African Savanna
Author | : A. Ker |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Agricultural systems |
ISBN | : 0889367930 |
Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis
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Author | : A. Ker |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Agricultural systems |
ISBN | : 0889367930 |
Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis
Author | : Lloyd Timberlake |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 113415710X |
The first edition of this incisive text on the problems of drought and famine facing Africa won worldwide critical acclaim. Revised with a new introduction, Lloyd Timberlake's bestselling study is invaluable reading for anyone interested in Africa.
Author | : Brian Goldstone |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022640241X |
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa’s future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.
Author | : Olayiwola Abegunrin |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030566420 |
This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places African migration within the broader contexts of international history, law, economics, and policy. Section II discusses cases of African migration to Europe, Latin America, and the Mediterranean. Section III considers negative consequences of mass African migration, including the restriction and criminalization of migration, post-traumatic stress disorder, and gender-based violence. A compelling account of risk, resilience, and global power dynamics, this volume will be useful to students and researchers interested in African studies, migration, peace and conflict studies, and policy as well as professionals, practitioners, NGOs, IGOs, governmental and humanitarian organizations.
Author | : Nicolas Van de Walle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001-09-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521008365 |
This Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments which do not really believe that reform will be effective.
Author | : Mark Beissinger |
Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2002-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781930365087 |
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author | : Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African American children |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gillian Patricia Hart |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820347175 |
Revisiting long-standing debates to shed new light on the transition from apartheid, Hart provides an innovative analysis of the ongoing, unstable, and unresolved crisis in South Africa today and suggests how Antonio Gramsci's concept of passive revolution can do useful analytical and political work in South Africa and beyond.
Author | : P. Thandika Mkandawire |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 155250204X |
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author | : Trevor W. Parfitt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-11-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136887822 |
Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book, first published in 1989, begins by looking at the origins of the world debt crisis, and then looks closely at the problem as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa. The effects of debt on Africa’s position in international relations are considered, and the roles played by organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are assessed. The authors also examine the local effects in a series of case studies of various states including Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, the Francophone States and Zaire.