Bøger i African Issues serien

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states.

Places Sudan's oil industry (examined here in macro, micro and political terms), its economy, external relations and changing politics under the impact of the Darfur conflict and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, in the wider context of the expansion of Asia's global economic strength.

China's increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically.

Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and marginalizing it from the club of wealthier nations, and causing it to continue to rely on international aid.

Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity.

Exploring questions such as, Does statelessness necessarily mean anarchy and disorder? Do money, international trade, and investment survive without a state? Do pastoralists care about development and social improvement? This book describes the complexity of the Somali situation in the light of international terrorism.

Grassroots researchers examine the barriers and ways of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in Africa.

A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent.

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.

Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples.

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering a critical window into development politics in African states.

This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg.

An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder.

Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa.

Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people.

A vivid account of modern pastoralist armed conflict.

Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana.

Expanded third edition of this key text on the complex underlying conditions of the civil war from the 1960s to the present day, including a new chapter on the current wars in Sudan's new south and South Sudan.

This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.

Interrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.

Explores to what extent Africa's "rise" has impacted on development and whether the BRICS are creating a new version of dependency.

Examines a new aspect of one of the highest profile issues facing Africa today-land-grabbing-and shows the widespread impact of small-scale dispossession.

A timely, ethnographically informed account of the "development state" of Tanzania, showing how development practice and culture have become integrated into everyday life, politically, socially and economically.

Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle.

Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'?