Africa for Sale? Positioning the State, Land and Society in Foreign Large-Scale Land Acquisitions in Africa analyzes the role of the state in driving, negotiating and facilitating (foreign) land deals, and examines the extent to which large-scale land acquisitions are conditioned by land...

The innovation system theory has to deal with climate change as it generates the intellectual tools to promote development. A unified innovation system theory that integrates the eradication of threats to nature with the promotion of development is critically important to advance an original...

A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India, Western Europe, Argentina together larger than the sum of these regions is in an...

From a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary standpoint, this book challenges the teleological and unidirectional notions of development embodied in the idea of modernisation or 'progress' and offers a critique of the tendency to consider Africa as a basket case, which often gives the Western...

Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Tables -- Boxes -- Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE - Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Theoretical Debates and Experiences from Developing Regions -- 1. The Case for a...

Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chômage et conditions d'existence des jeunes de la ville de Ouagadougou -- 3. Familles en survie dans un espace défavorisé à Ouagadougou -- 4. Villes et créativité des enfants et des jeunes...

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent...

Intro -- POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF AFRICA. VOLUME 9 -- POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF AFRICA. VOLUME 9 -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda* -- Summary -- Recent Developments -- Uganda:...