Social Science
Social Science
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the Heart of Darkness to Africa Rising
Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production...
$260.00
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the Heart of Darkness to Africa Rising
Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production...
$73.00
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 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 Travelogue
This book is written by a member of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) working under the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It consists of his experiences visiting Sudan, South Sudan, Egypt, Kenya, Somalia, Morocco, Senegal, Eritrea, Mauritania,...
$163.00
Africa Rising: Shedding Black Africa's Burden
The images that readily capture people's imagination when asked about Africa are: hunger, disease, famine, malnutrition, civil strife, unpaved roads and general underdevelopment. These images constitute black Africa's burden. They paint a stunning irony between that sense of pride that...
$19.00
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors
Over the last 25 years, the "Africa Rising" discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals. This book critically examines that discourse, analyzing recurring themes, tropes, metaphors, and imagery....
$96.00
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 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 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: The Human Cradle: Contributions Honoring Richard E. Leakey's Paleoanthropological Legacy
$364.00
Africa: The Human Cradle: Contributions Honoring Richard E. Leakey's Paleoanthropological Legacy
This volume comprises papers delivered at a five-day International Conference honoring the immense contributions of Richard E. Leakey to furthering our appreciation of the centrality of Africa to the narrative of human evolution. The discoveries by Richard in the Turkana...
$364.00
Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema
This book establishes more complex genealogies and revised histories of African film through an extension of the historical, geographical, and critical frameworks that have been deployed to analyse cinematic production from across the continent.
$81.00
Africa's Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema
This book establishes more complex genealogies and revised histories of African film through an extension of the historical, geographical, and critical frameworks that have been deployed to analyse cinematic production from across the continent.
$165.00
Africa's Legacies of Urbanization: Unfolding Saga of a Continent
Africa's Legacies of Urbanization is the culmination of several decades of research, travel, and teaching. Goodwin provides an interdisciplinary and up-to-date look at African cities and the urbanization process. Beginning with an overview of the urban experience in Africa, Goodwin...
$117.00
Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid...
$54.00
Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume II: Pop Culture, Environment, Colonialism and Migration
Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two “isms” of radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere irreconcilable...
$207.00
Africa's Information Revolution: Technical Regimes and Production Networks in South Africa and Tanzania
Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the development and economic geographies accompanying the rapid...
$122.00
Africa Proconsularis: Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunesia 3. Historical Conclusions
From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimonie carried out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the Segermes basis, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained...
$78.00
Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalization and Education
$295.00
Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms: Volume I: Politics, Poverty, Marginalization and Education
With Africa as its point of reference and departure, this volume examines why and how the two concepts – radicalisms and conservatisms – should not be taken as mere binaries around which to organize knowledge. It demonstrates that these concepts...
$295.00
Africa's Priceless Heritage
"The Scriptures foresaw that God would justify the gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham, 'All nations will be blessed through you'. So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith"...
$18.00
Africa's Gift to the World
This is an educational book on African slavery and the creation of the African diaspora from the 15th century to the 21st century.
$44.00
Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States (Civil War Centennial)
Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western historyOriginally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel...
$33.00
Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge
Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eyes of most countries, were 'appendages' of their parents or simply embedded in the larger family...
$33.00
Africa's Elusive Quest for Development (2006)
Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better policies, good governance, and, more...
$71.00
Africa's Elite Football: Structure, Politics, and Everyday Challenges
This book explores various aspects of intranational elite football in Africa, drawing on the expertise of notable scholars from across the world. Africa’s Elite Football focuses on an area largely ignored by current scholarship on African football, where interest has...
$78.00
Africa's development in the 21st century: Reshaping the research agenda
As Africa enters the 21st century, it faces mounting challenges as well as new opportunities. Unlike in the 1980s and the 1990s, however, the conditions for Africa’s sustained growth and development are more favorable today than ever before. As a...
$18.00
Africa's Development Crisis and the Role of External Lending Institutions: On the Perspective from Nigeria
Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, language: English, abstract: This work analyzes Africa's development crisis and the role of external lending institutions conerning the perspective in Nigeria. African countries came out of...
$35.00