Political Science
Political Science
Aspects of Real Estate Theory and Practice in Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Text
The subject of real estate is increasingly becoming important, especially in the countries of the developing world. States and governments realise that real estate is a corner stone of socio-economic development. Real estate development contributes immensely to the gross physical...
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Aspects Ecocritiques de L Imaginaire Africain (French Edition)
It is important to question some recurrent commonplaces about the (post)colonial order and the preservation of the environment if one wants to reconcile ecocriticism and postcolonial theories. For instance, were pre-colonial societies devoid of ecological awareness? Is the environmental commitment...
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Asomne amwue nda (Sorrow in the House)
Asomne amwue nda (Sorrow in the House) is an exposition of brutality, suffering, and sadness associated with destruction; citizens running scared, living in fear and don't know what to do. The poems illustrate how Africans find themselves lost in the...
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Asinamanzi: Fluid Realities -Exploring South Africa's Water Crisis and Social Dynamics
The book opens up a new pathway for a contemporary ethnographic exploration of the politics of water in an unequal society, specifically focusing on the challenges faced in Khayelitsha, South Africa. South Africa is confronted with a quadruple threat of...
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Anxiety in Mosaic
into a volume of poetry; anxieties that span a cross section of the human phenomena of greed (in ramifications) and the resultant socio-political, economic and environmental consequences; the repercussions of worsted governance, feminist, ecological, emigrational and imperialist concerns, presented from...
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The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century
In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed...
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The Anglophone Cameroon Predicament
This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalization struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and...
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Ambacide: The Genocide and Extermination Reminiscent of Extermination of Jews (Holocaust) by Adolf Hitler
Genocide and extermination are no longer mere words, promises, hopes, etc. These acts are already a law which can be enforced. In practical terms, this law means no more extermination, no more mass killings, no more concentration camps, no more...
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The Akroma File
Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the...
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Ako-Aya: A Cameroorian Pioneer in Daring Journalism and Social Commentary
Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, the rabid critic, social crusader and witty journalist, all rolled up in one, was indeed a popular and widely admired pioneer in daring journalism and social commentary in Cameroon. Little wonder that when he died,...
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After Radical Land Reform: Restructuring Agricultural Cooperatives in Zimbabwe and Japan
Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible. Still, the similarities in the socio-economic and political realities of their respective radical land reforms and grain policies provide scope for such an endeavor. This book examines the aftermath of...
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Africa's Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon
Africa's Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result...
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Africa's Dependency Syndrome: Can Africa Still Turn Things around for the Better?
There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency. Africa needs...
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Africa's Best and Worst Presidents: How Neocolonialism and Imperialism Maintained Venal Rules in Africa
Africa's Best and Worst Presidents seeks to deconstruct the current superstructure that colonialism created and maintains. It chastises and challenges Africans, academics in the main, to revisit and write a true history of Africa. Written by Africans themselves, such rewritten histories...
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African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
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African Studies in the Academy: The Cornucopia of Theory, Praxis and Transformation in Africa?
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be...
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'African Potentials' for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Image of 'Deficiency' and Tyranny of 'Fortress'
This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book...
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African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness
This book is the result of a research project, called African Potentials, that we have been conducting for 10 years. This project was aimed at overturning negative stereotypes the world has imposed on Africa, such as poverty, hunger and conflict,...
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African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World
This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is "mobilizing resources from their (possibly unequal) relationship with the external environment", a dynamic that constitutes a possible African potential;...
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African Land Rights Systems
This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is...
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The African Conundrum: Rethinking the Trajectories of Historical, Cultural, Philosophical and Developmental Experiences of Africa
The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardization, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is...
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Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mitigation Dynamics and Their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civil Liberties
This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the...
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Accidental Queer: and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada
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Accidental Queer: and other essays around critical masculinity studies in Southern Africa and Canada
Since the 1990s Marc Epprecht has helped lay the groundwork for critical masculinity and African queer studies with such publications as the award-winning Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa. Here he steps outside of the academic...
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Access to Microfinance and Financial Training for Innovative Urban Sustainability. Collective Investments at the Bottom of the Pyramid Segment in Urban Kenya
The Kenyan population is highly concentrated in urban centers, leading to increased social, economic and environmental strains, with a significant percentage of urban dwellers living in sprawling slums. Urban development is increasingly a major focus, especially in the fight against...
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The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite: Choice or Betrayal
The United Nations-organized plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office...
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The Letter Man: The LetterMan - Inside the "Secret" Letters of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo
PAPERBACK “I believe that the Olusegun Obasanjo letters will find a prominent place in the chapters of Nigeria’s contemporary history as informative insights into the national affairs of the country when they were written. I therefore recommend this book, The...
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Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All
"Survival of the Richest is a fantastically well-researched book, and should join Robert Reich and Barbara Ehrenreich on the must-read bookshelf on wealth disparity."—Dr. Naomi Wolf, CEO, Dailyclout.ioA fresh look at economic inequality in AmericaSurvival of the Richest scrutinizes how the collective...
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To Rule Eurasia’s Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea
The first book to weave Eurasia together through the perspective of the oceans and seas “A detailed account of the growing importance of the Chinese, Indian, and Russian navies and how this competition is playing out in waters stretching from the...
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Free Enterprise: An American History
An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics Throughout the twentieth century, “free enterprise” has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks...
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Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom
Myths and misunderstandings about what happened in the Great Recession continue to hinder the American economy by making us afraid of the one thing we need most: more homes.Remember when mania led to a massive housing bubble? When Americans found...
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