Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities

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Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities

edited by Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah

(African histories and modernities / series editors, Toyin Falola, Matthew M. Heaton)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • Change and continuity in contemporary Africa / Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah
  • Mau Mau inventions and reinventions / Mickie Mwanzia Koster
  • The development of the civil service in Africa / Julius O. Adekunle
  • The Second World War and Africa's socioeconomic infrastructures : a case study of the Nigerian railroad system / Tokunbo A. Ayoola
  • The Cold War and the emergence of economic divergences : Africa and Asia compared / S.U. Fwatshak
  • Africa's debt burden and the HIPC initiative : Cameroon, from challenges to opportunity / Augustine E. Ayuk
  • The effects of family size on socioeconomic status in Cameroon : a critical analysis / Consoler Teboh
  • Music and the politics of culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS experience : implications for "post-apartheid" discourse / Austin C. Okigbo
  • Land and conflict in Kenya's Rift Valley : historical and contemporary perspectives / Martin Shanguhyia and Mickie Mwanzia Koster
  • The migration of professionals from Africa : assessing the impact of the "brain drain" from the continent / J.K. Mapulanga-Hulston
  • Africa that works / Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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