Political Science
Political Science
Africa's Urban Revolution
Making up 65 percent of Africa's population, young people between the ages of 18 and 35 play a key role in politics, yet they live in an environment of rapid urbanization, high unemployment rates and poor state services. Drawing from...
$143.00
Africa's Uprising: Perspectives from the Genda Foundation
Africa stands at a crossroads. With over 60% of its population under the age of 25, the continent carries the world’s most vibrant demographic dividend. Yet this immense strength is too often excluded from meaningful governance and policy processes. Africa’s Uprising:...
$20.00
Africa's Underdevelopment: The Nigerian Predicament: A Compendium of Problems, Solutions, And A Way Forward
For the past 50 years, and I am now in my mid-80s, I have been inundated with questions that I never seem to have answers to. The questions have come from the young and the old; educated and the uneducated;...
$26.00
Africa's Moment (English)
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
$101.00
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty years after independence, it is full to bursting, urban and...
$43.00
Africa's Message to Obama
This book is a spiritual message from Africa. In plain language the message is that America’s foreign policy for Africa should be centred on accelerated political unification of the continent through the current infantile African Union (AU).
$20.00
Africa's Media Image
This collection, arranged and edited by Beverly G. Hawk, examines media coverage of Africa by American television, newspapers, and magazines. Scholars and journalists of diverse experience engage in debate concerning U.S. media coverage of current events in Africa. As each...
$130.00
Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future (2005)
In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous institutions which have been castigated by African leaders as...
$142.00
Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation
This book redefines the debate on Africa’s future by confronting the hidden continuities of colonial power that persist in economics, education, and governance. By revealing how structural dependency and epistemic subjugation still constrain the continent’s autonomy, this book advocates for...
$189.00
Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade: Geographic Perspectives on Ghana's Timber Industry and Development
This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade by...
$195.00
Africa Toward 2030: Challenges for Development Policy (2012)
Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future...
$71.00
Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security
In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. While some countries seem to be moving forward with greater levels of confidence,...
$345.00
Africa Today: Culture, Economics, Religion, Security
In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. While some countries seem to be moving forward with greater levels of confidence,...
$86.00
Africa Rising?: Brics - Diversifying Dependency
Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies,...
$39.00
Africa Rising - A Response to U.S. Article 98 and the International Criminal Court
What are the factors that enable weak states to withstand foreign policy pressure from strong states? This study examines how some African states held their own in the face of United States lobbying efforts against ratification of the International Criminal...
$69.00
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Ronnie Archer-Morgan narrates this major new history of how African nations sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era...
$30.00
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era...
$39.00
Africa's Strides to an Economic Powerhouse Leveraged by Industrialization
This book traces Africa's journey-where it has come from, where it stands today, and where it is headed in its quest for industrialization and development. Drawing on insightful analysis and forward-looking perspectives, it envisions a continent on the rise, driven...
$32.00
Africa's Soft Power: Philosophies, Political Values, Foreign Policies and Cultural Exports
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft...
$260.00
Africa's Social Cleavages and Democratization: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Multiparty Era
Africa’s Social Cleavages and Democratization offers a comparative approach to African countries by providing an in-depth analysis of the impact of ethnicity and religion on both multiparty and post-multiparty eras. By applying different theoretical frameworks, Douglas Kimemia explores and analyzes...
$71.00
Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development
For years economists have spoken of 'Africa rising', and despite the global financial crisis, Africa continues to host some of the fastest growing economies in the world.Africa's Shadow Rise however argues that the continent's apparent economic 'rise' is essentially a mirage,...
$56.00
Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development
For years economists have spoken of 'Africa rising', and despite the global financial crisis, Africa continues to host some of the fastest growing economies in the world.Africa's Shadow Rise however argues that the continent's apparent economic 'rise' is essentially a mirage,...
$143.00
Africa's Second Wave of Freedom: Development, Democracy, and Rights, Vol. 11
Africa's Second Wave of Freedom represents the work of scholars who share a concern with the development of civil society in Africa. The first third of the book deals theoretically with the issues of democracy and stability in Africa. In particular,...
$97.00
Africa's Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World (2023)
Africa stands at a crossroads. Its countries have made ambitious commitments to decarbonise, while facing an equally urgent need to industrialise, grow their economies, and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. With the continent's population projected to...
$208.00
Africa's Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World (2023)
Africa stands at a crossroads. Its countries have made ambitious commitments to decarbonise, while facing an equally urgent need to industrialise, grow their economies, and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. With the continent's population projected to...
$208.00
Africa's Recovery in the 1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development (1992)
While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term development...
$143.00
Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China
This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway...
$75.00
Africa's Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China
This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway...
$247.00
Africa: Rich but Poor
Why is Africa, the cradle of Mankind, the second largest and second most populous continent in the world, endowed with abundant natural and mineral resources, the poorest on our planet? Who or what are responsible for this sad situation? Are...
$39.00
Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa within in the rapidly changing global media and shows how patterns of media ownership and state control...
$64.00