Social Science
Social Science
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...
$48.00
Africa's Demographic Transition: Dividend or Disaster?
Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce...
$46.00
Africa Time: Two Scholars' Seasons in Uganda
Africa Time depicts the experiences and observations of two scholars who spent two years teaching at Makerere University in Uganda from a literary, religious and political point of view. It assesses the cultural, political, and educational prospects of contemporary Uganda, often...
$24.00
Africa's Challenge to America
This book examines Africa's emerging role in global politics during the mid-20th century and presents Chester Bowles’ views on how American foreign policy should adapt to meet Africa’s growing challenges. Following World War II, the United States’ foreign policy largely...
$124.00
Africa's Challenge to America
This book examines Africa's emerging role in global politics during the mid-20th century and presents Chester Bowles’ views on how American foreign policy should adapt to meet Africa’s growing challenges. Following World War II, the United States’ foreign policy largely...
$52.00
Africa: A Geographical Study
First published in 1965, Africa provides a geographical, political, economic and social description of the continent. Contemporary Africa is a continent of change and revolutions. The diversity and limitations of the African environment gives us a fuller understanding of the explosive dynamism...
$82.00
Africa: A Geographical Study
First published in 1965, Africa provides a geographical, political, economic and social description of the continent. Contemporary Africa is a continent of change and revolutions. The diversity and limitations of the African environment gives us a fuller understanding of the explosive dynamism...
$377.00
Africa's Brain Power: Reflections from Africaonline Broadcasts, Vol. 1
Africa’s Brain Power is a collection of editorial entries penned by AfricaOnline’s Executive Editor between March 2016 and December 2017. The collection covers a variety of topics from abortion and alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, migration, sexual harassment, polygamy, STEM education, social media,...
$26.00
Africa's Brain Power: Reflections from AfricaOnline Broadcasts, Vol. 1
Africa's Brain Power is a collection of editorial entries penned by AfricaOnline's Executive Editor between March 2016 and December 2017. The collection covers a variety of topics from abortion and alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, migration, sexual harassment, polygamy, STEM education, social media, bribery...
$26.00
Africa's Backwardness, Misfortunes, and the Word of God: Why Is African Continent Behind Others? (an Acid Test for the Word of God)
This book-Africa's Backwardness, Misfortunes, and the Word of God-was born out of serious burden God imposed on me immediately after I returned back to my village from America. I shaded tears and confronted God with many questions: -Why are you...
$27.00
Africare: Black American Philanthropy in Africa
Africare is a US-based non-profit organization specializing in development aid for Africa. It is also the oldest and largest African-American led organization in the development field. Since its founding in 1970, Africare has delivered more than $710 million in assistance...
$260.00
Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil
When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba...
$68.00
Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives the assistants and...
$40.00
The Africana Bible, Second Edition: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora
$77.00
The Africana Bible, Second Edition: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora
A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window into the world of interpretation on the African continent and in the multiple diasporas of African peoples, including the African American experience,...
$77.00
African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically...
$35.00
African Women in Towns: An Aspect of Africa's Social Revolution
This 1973 book analyses the changing position of women in an urban context in sub-Saharan Africa. In spite of the fact that women, at the time of publication, were often important leaders of opinion and in these countries the proportion...
$61.00
African Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Change, Policies, and Approaches
This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century proliferation of mobile internet, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The move towards digitalization brings fundamental changes in the way people work,...
$81.00
African Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Change, Policies, and Approaches
This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century proliferation of mobile internet, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The move towards digitalization brings fundamental changes in the way people work,...
$247.00
African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics: The Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
How can we promote people-centered governance in Africa? Cell phones/ information and communications technology (ICT) are shown to be linked to neoliberal understandings of more democratic governance structures, defined by the Worldwide Governance Indicators as: the rule of law, corruption-control,...
$114.00
African Women, Climate Change, and the Green Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
This book comprehensively explores the intersection between gender, climate change, and the green economy in Africa. It investigates the gendered impacts of climate change and emphasises the critical role women play in addressing climate change, shaping sustainable development, and the...
$260.00
Africa, its Partition and it Future
Africa, its Partition and it Future is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...
$42.00
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
MP3 CD Format So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant...
$60.00
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris,...
$25.00
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2022An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers. So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris,...
$39.00
Africa Is Consciousness
Africa Is a Consciousness: Why Africa Is More Than a Continent Africa is often described through borders, statistics, and headlines. This book proposes a different approach. Africa Is a Consciousness presents a philosophical and civilisational exploration of Africa as more than geography....
$33.00
Africa is Bleeding: Between Miseries and Hopes
This is a crossed analytical study with a conscious and pragmatic approach of social and historical issues of Africa in order to draw some essential elements for the construction of a common and better destiny (future). Clandestine immigration of young...
$16.00
Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation
Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American...
$75.00
Africa in World Affairs: Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation
Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond Euro-American...
$260.00
Africa on the Move: African Migration and Urbanisation in Comparative Perspective
This thirteen-chapter volume, based on a conference held in South Africa in June 2003, describes and compares patterns of internal, regional and international migration in Africa, with comparative insights from Asia and Latin America. The authors, an international team of...
$46.00