Contemporary Africa

Challenges and Opportunities
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-43891-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4532 g

Reihe: African Histories and Modernities

60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, T.

Mbah, E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Africa; Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah PART I: COLONIAL AND NEOCOLONIAL LEGACIES 1. Mau Mau Inventions and Reinventions; Mickie Mwanzia Koster 2. Race and Social Islands in Kenya's Urban Spaces; Brillian Besi Muhonja 3. The Second World War and Africa's Socio-Economic Infrastructures: a Case Study of the Nigerian Railroad System; Tokunbo A. Ayoola 4. The Cold War and the Emergence of Economic Divergences: Africa and Asia Compared; S. U. Fwatshak PART II: TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENTS IN ECONOMIES AND CULTURES 5. Africa's Debt Burden and HIPC Initiative: Cameroon, from Challenges to Opportunity; Augustine Ayuk 6. The Impact of Family Planning Programs on Poverty Alleviation in Cameroon; Consoler T. Teboh 7. Music and the Politics of Culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS Experience: Implications for 'Post-Apartheid' Discourse; Austin C. Okigbo 8. A Parallel Evolution: The Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Apartheid, and American Civil Rights; Myra Ann Houser 9. The Migration of Professionals from Africa: Assessing the Impact of 'Brain Drain' from the Continent; J K Mapulanga-Hulston Conclusion: An Africa that Works; Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah

Über Autor(innen)

Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola, University of Manchester, UK

Augustine E. Ayuk, Clayton State University, USA

S. U. Fwatshak, University of Jos, Nigeria

Myra Ann Houser, Howard University, USA

Jackie Mapulanga-Hulston, Curtin Law School, Australia

Besi Brillian Muhonja, James Madison University, USA

Mickie Mwanzia Koster, University of Texas at Tyler, USA

Austin C. Okigbo, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Consoler T. Teboh, Saint Cloud State University, USA