"This volume offers insights into ongoing, global socio-economic transformations by directing attention to the significance of labour, work, craft, community, social institutions, social movements and, emergent subjectivities in different parts of the world. This is in contrast to theories that...

Institutions: an introduction / Francis Wiafe-Amoako --. - Democracide: who killed democracy in Africa? : clues of the past, concerns of the future / Ali A. Mazrui --. - Political ideologies and democratic consolidation in Africa / Francis Wiafe-Amoako --. - Gender roles in Africa : traditional...

Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be...