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| Author | : Brad Weiss |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9004138609 |
The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.
| Author | : Sangu Delle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Businesspeople |
| ISBN | : 9781911115885 |
This collection tells the story of an emerging and dynamic Africa, through the eyes of some of the youngest and most promising African entrepreneurs.
| Author | : Jakkie Cilliers |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2021-04-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 303046590X |
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitious progress in health, demographics, agriculture, education, industrialization, technological leapfrogging, increased trade, greater stability, better governance and external support. The book reviews the future of work/jobs, poverty and the impact of climate change. A combined Closing the Gap scenario presents a forecast of what could be possible by 2040. Each chapter suggests which policies might accelerate prospects for each sector. Written in an accessible style, and supported by a range of pedagogical features, this textbook introduces undergraduate and graduate students to the contemporary human and economic development prospects in Africa.
| Author | : Carola Lentz |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2022-05-03 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0253060184 |
What keeps a family together? In Imagining Futures, authors Carola Lentz and Isidore Lobnibe offer a unique look at one extended African family, currently comprising over five hundred members in Northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Members of this extended family, like many others in the region, find themselves living increasingly farther apart and working in diverse occupations ranging from religious clergy and civil service to farming. What keeps them together as a family? In their groundbreaking work, Lentz and Lobnibe argue that shared memories, rather than only material interests, bind a family together. Imagining Futures explores the changing practices of remembering in an African family and offers a unique contribution to the growing field of memory studies, beyond the usual focus of Europe and America. Lentz and Lobnibe explore how, in an increasingly globalized, postcolonial world, memories themselves are not static accounts of past events but are actually malleable and shaped by both current concerns and imagined futures.
| 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.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2004-06-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9047413792 |
The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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Dans une première section, nous montrons les défaillances des politiques d'aménagement du territoire et de voir par des analyses spatiales, s'il est opportun de continuer à penser de la même façon et de réaliser de la même manière l'aménagement et le développement économique. [...] La nationalisation de certaines entreprises et la libéralisation de l'industrie d'exportation, la naissance des pôles industriels et des technopoles et les zones franches de Bizerte et de Zarzis 8 L'équité de développement régional passe par la baisse des iniquités socio spatiales et une amélioration de l'accessibilité régionale ainsi que les investissements dans le secteur touristique ont tous ét. [...] La nationalisation de certaines entreprises et la libéralisation de l'industrie d'exportation, la naissance des pôles industriels et des technopoles et les zones franches de Bizerte et de Zarzis ainsi que les investissements dans le secteur touristique ont tous été concentré sur la frange littorale (Belhadi, 2007). [...] L'application de la méthodologie de zonage optimal de Thïessen va permettre de fixer des ZES et de les comparer par la suite avec les limites administratives des gouvernorats sur les cartes numériques. [...] Ainsi, il est possible de doter chaque ZES d'un système industriel approprié à ses spécificités géographiques, économique et sociale lui permettant de consolider et valoriser ses avantages comparatifs, ce qui permettrait de bénéficier des externalités régionales et intra- régionales et accroitre la contribution de chaque zone dans la création de la richesse nationale et donc de la croissance inclu.
| Author | : Francis Omaswa |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0198703325 |
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who have themselves led improvements in their own countries, the book discusses the creativity, innovation and leadership that has been involved tackling everything from HIV/AIDs, to maternal, and child mortality and neglected tropical diseases. It celebrates their achievements and shows how, over three generations, African health leaders are creating a distinctively African vision of health and health systems. The book reveals how African Health Leaders are claiming the future - in Africa, but also by sharing their insights and knowledge globally and contributing fully to improving health throughout the world. It illustrates how African leadership can enable foreign agencies and individuals working in Africa to avoid all those misunderstandings and misinterpretations of culture and context which lead to wasted efforts and frustrated hopes. African Health Leaders challenges Africans to do more for themselves; build on success; tackle weak governance, corrupt systems and low expectations and claim the future. It sets out what Africa needs from the rest of the world in the spirit of global solidarity - not primarily in aid, but through investment, collaboration, partnership and co-development. It concludes with a vision for improvement based on three foundations: an understanding that 'health is made at home'; the determination to offer access to health services for everyone; and an insistence on the pursuit of quality.
| Author | : Lina Benabdallah |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2020-07-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 047212689X |
China’s rise to power is one of the biggest questions in International Relations theory (IRT) and foreign policy circles. Although power has been a core concept of IRT for a long time, the faces and mechanisms of power as it relates to Chinese foreign policymaking has changed the contours of that debate. The rise of China and other powers across the global political arena sparks a new visibility for different kinds of encounters between states, particularly between China and other Global South states. These encounters are more visible to IR scholars because of the increasing influence that rising powers have in the international system. This book shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or investment strategies of Euro-American hegemons. Instead, they have distinctive features that require new theoretical frameworks for analysis. Shaping the Future of Power probes the types of power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa. One must take into account the processes of knowledge production, social capital formation, and skills transfers that Chinese foreign policy directs toward African states to fully understand China’s power-building mechanisms. The relational power framework requires these elements to capture both the material aspects and ideational people-centered aspects to power. By examining China’s investments in human resource development programs for Africa, the book reveals a vital, yet undertheorized, aspect of China’s foreign policy making.
| Author | : Sangu Delle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Businesspeople |
| ISBN | : 9781911115892 |
