Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Falola, Toyin (Editor ), Mbah, Emmanuel M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:African histories and modernities.
Temas:
2000-2099
Poverty > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Pauvreté > Afrique.
Postcolonialisme > Afrique.
African history > 21st century > c 2010 to c 2020.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Economic history
Postcolonialism
Poverty
Social conditions
African history > 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100 > c 2010 to c 2019.
History.
Africa > Social conditions > 21st century.
Africa > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Afrique > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Afrique > Conditions économiques > 21e siècle.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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