The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Resources and Development

Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-20951-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This handbook advances an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Africa’s resource endowments—human, natural, ideological, theological, and philanthropic—and their synergistic roles in sustainable development. Integrating perspectives from political economy, development studies, anthropology, theology, philosophy, geography, law, and public policy, it interrogates prevailing extractivist paradigms and proposes analytically rigorous alternatives. Chapters combine comparative case studies, mixed-methods analyses, and critical theory to examine institutional dynamics, governance architectures, value chains, civic and faith-based mobilizations, and Africa’s engagements with external actors. By mapping the co-production of resources and development outcomes, the volume offers methodological depth and policy-relevant insights. It will appeal to scholars, advanced students and policymakers in African studies, Development Studies, Economics, and Political Science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chitando, Ezra

Gapa, Angela Zivo

Mlambo, Obert Bernard

Chitando, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa’s Resources and Development.- Chapter 2: Theorizing Africa’s Path to Sustainable Development.- Chapter 3: Out of Africa: Theorizing Resources for African Development.- Chapter 4: African Culture, Technology and Development.- Chapter 5: Poverty Amidst Plenty of Resources: Navigating hope for Africa.- Chapter 6: revisiting nkrumah and gaddafi’s ideas on africa’s development: lessons for 21st century africa.- Chapter 7: Rethinking Development Policies: The Role of Traditional Values in Sustainable Development in Africa.- Chapter 8: Ubuntu for Equity: Ethical Frameworks Guiding Pharmaceutical Policy in Africa.- Chapter 9: Ubuntu Philosophy: A Resource for Child Rights and Development in Africa.- Chapter 10: Reclaiming the communal ‘self’: moral values and the concept of development in Africa.- Chapter 11: Re-Imagining Sustainable Development.- Chapter 12: Cultural stagnation and development in Africa: A case for the adoption of the scientific method in the development agenda.- Chapter 13: When Resources Breed Violence: Mines, Motor Oil and Militias in Africa.- Chapter 14: Critical Minerals and Human Security in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 15: Africa’s Mineral Resources: Leveraging Five Forces for Digitally-Driven Sustainable Development.- Chapter 16: The Blue Economy’s Contribution to Africa’s Thriving.- Chapter 17: LAKE MALAWI: A RESOURCE AND DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 18: Tourism’s Natural Resources Contribution to Southern Africa’s Development.- Chapter 19: Intangible Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Economic Sustainability: Opportunities, Strategies and Challenges in Indigenous Contexts of Southern Africa.- Chapter 20: The Civilization of Service: Antiquity and Tradition as Resources in Contemporary African Development.- Chapter 21: Gender Justice and Women’s Rights as Catalysts for Africa’s Development.- Chapter 22: The Real Assets: African Women Creative Writers and Africa’s Resources.- Chapter 23: The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: Intersectionality, HIV and Preparing for Other Pandemics.- Chapter 24: Empowering Women in Nature-Based Activities for Sustainable Resource Management in Nigeria.- Chapter 25: Women’s Contribution to Economic Growth in Mauritius.- Chapter 26: Overcoming the Gender Digital divide for African women's socioeconomic prosperity and achieving gender equality.- Chapter 27: Egypt’s Catalysts for Development: Digitally Skilled Women in the Informal Economy Transforming Precarity into Resilience During COVID-19.- Chapter 28: Women and Post-COVID 19 Socio-Economic Recovery in South Africa: Examining the Impact of Corruption on the Social Relief Distress Initiative.- Chapter 29: Women Empowerment and Climate Change Across Africa.- Chapter 30: Human Capital: An Underrated Resource for Africa’s Development.- Chapter 31: National Human Resource Development for a Competitive Africa: Skills, Innovation, and Capacity for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 32: Enhancing Happiness in South Africa: People as the Ultimate Resource.- Chapter 33: Driving Africa's Agenda 2063: The Role of Effective Civil Servants.- Chapter 34: Africa's Think Tanks: Sites of Struggle in the Continent’s Quest for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 35: Interdisciplinary STEM Education and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources in Africa.- Chapter 36: Decolonising Vocational Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Aligning Skills with Local Realities.- Chapter 37: Deploying the arts for resource protection in Africa: Cases from Ghana.- Chapter 38: Thriving Older Adult Populations of Sub-Saharan Africa as Resources.- Chapter 39: Governance, Debt Sustainability and Resource Wealth in Africa: Comparative Lessons from Zambia and Botswana.- Chapter 40: The Institution of Traditional Leadership: A review of its potential and role in promoting sustainable development in contemporary Africa.- Chapter 41: Governance as an Institutional Resource in Africa: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Egypt’s Agricultural Sector.- Chapter 42: Military Infrastructure and the Defence of Resources in Post-colonial Africa: Insights from War and Political Economy in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 43: Silencing the Guns, Anchoring Hope: Strategies for Africa’s Development.- Chapter 44: African Women in Security and Peacebuilding: Transcending the Traditional Boundaries, Achieving Agenda 2063.- Chapter 45: Fuel Subsidies in Africa: Blessing or Curse.- Chapter 46: Faith-Based Social Impact Finance Strategies in Africa: Towards Rebalancing Global Development Asymmetries through Empowering Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs).- Chapter 47: Faith-based Philanthropy in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges for Radical Social Transformation.- Chapter 48: Upscaling African philanthropy from informal to formal contexts: What can we learn from Pentecostal churches in Ghana?.- Chapter 49: Optimising Africa's Religious Resources for Sustainable Prosperity:  A Socio-Religious Analysis of Poverty Alleviation on the Continent.- Chapter 50: Reclaiming the Deal: Mediation, Technology, and Africa’s Resource Sovereignty.- Chapter 51: Rethinking Africa’s Resources in International Relations: From Exploitation and Dependency to Fair Partnerships and Self-Reliance.- Chapter 52: Africa’s prosperity in international relations: a new approach.- Chapter 53: The Role of the African Union in Sustainable Resource Management.- Chapter 54: Migration, Remittances and Africa’s Development: Current Practices, Challenges and Pathways.- Chapter 55: Africa’s Right to Development: The Problematization of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).- Chapter 56: The Role of Multilateral Organizations in African Resource Governance: Successes and Shortcomings.- Chapter 57: Evoking African Folklore for a Winning Praxis: Translating Hutsuro Philosophy into Diplomatic Pedagogy.

Über Autor(innen)

Ezra Chitando is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, and Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, University of Western Cape, South Africa. His co-edited works include The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development (2024).

Angela Zivo Gapa is an associate professor of international relations at California State University, Chico. Her research focuses on the nexus between resources and politics, specifically, on the sources of political and economic variation among resource rich countries. Her publications include The Politics of New African Resource Discoveries in the Post-Curse Era (2024).

Obert Bernard Mlambo teaches Classics at Rhodes University. A former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany, He has published, Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: (Bloomsbury 2022) and co-edited, The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa (2024).

Anna Chitando is Associate Professor at the Zimbabwe Open University. She holds a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in English. Her research interests include African women and development, African literature, children's literature, as well as women and peacebuilding. Her publications include, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Women (2024).