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People, predicaments and potentials in Africa /

"The term 'African Potentials' refers to the knowledge, systems, practices, ideas and values created and implemented in African societies that are expected to contribute to overcoming various challenges and promoting people's wellbeing. This collection of articles, focused on Afr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ochiai, Takehiko (Editor ), Hirano-Nomoto, Misa (Editor ), Agbiboa, Daniel E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon : Kyoto, Japan : LANGAA Research & Publishing Common Interest Group ; in collaboration with The Center for African Studies, Kyoto University, [2021]
Colección:African potentials (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Series preface : African potentials for convivial world-making / Motoji Matsuda
  • Introduction : Africa is people / Takehiko Ochiai, Misa Hirano-Nomoto, Daniel E. Agbiboa
  • PART I. Potentials in the Everyday. Local recognition is alienated from global discourse : changes in female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in a Kenyan pastoral community / Kyoko Nakamura
  • No longer oppose or coexist : forty years of trans-border business and the state in the republic of the Congo / Mikako Toda
  • Crossing the border between informal and formal sectors : twenty years in the life of an entrepreneur in Yaoundé, Cameroon / Misa Hirano-Nomoto
  • Human ecological foundations of farmer-herder conflict in the Sahel : combining field observation, remote sensing and computational modelling / Takuto Sakamoto.
  • PART II. Potentials for Survival. Subsistence living within the market economy : African potentials for survival in a Western Kenyan mountain village / Motoji Matsuda
  • A Faustian bargain? : the puzzle of community-based zrmed broups in Africa / Daniel E. Agbiboa
  • Conflict and collaboration in Zimbabwe's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector / Grasian Mkondzonigi
  • One day, we gonna talk about it like a story : hardships and resilience of migrant women in South Africa from the Great Lakes Region / Chizuko Sato.
  • PART III. Politics and Potentials in Nigeria. African 'kings' and globalisation : chieftaincy and transnational mobility among Igbo migrants in Japan / Hisashi Matsumoto
  • The 200-year war : anthropological dimensions of Nigeria's pastoralist-horticulturalist politics / Peter-Jazzy Ezeh
  • Reforming federalism : military rule, institutional engineering and the national question in Nigeria / Takehiko Ochiai.