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Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies

Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.

Subnationalism in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Subnationalism in Africa

This examination of the politics of ethnicity and nation-building in Africa stresses the trend towards subnationalist autonomy and away from a singular, state-centric system based on the Western model. Forrest ranges across the continent to explore a variety of subnational movements.

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army

Draws from original interviews to provide insight into why thousands of black soldiers fought loyally and effectively for the Rhodesian Army.

Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book considers gender dimensions of a number of issues central to human security and development in Africa, including food security, AIDS, legal rights, violence, conflict resolution, informal work, the environment, and poverty alleviation. The gender focus of this volume points to the importance of power relationships and policy variability underlying human insecurities in the African context. The insights of this book offer the potential for an improved human security framework, one that embraces a more complex and context-specific analysis of the issues of risk and vulnerability, therefore expanding its capacity to safeguard the livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations.

Corporate Social Responsibility?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 403

Corporate Social Responsibility?

This volume presents corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a series of economic and political strategies that are currently shifting the focus of international human rights activism and signalling the rise of new forms of global governance. In as much as the work demonstrates the limitations of CSR and offers a critical perspective on corporate techniques of market domination, it also posits a future for CSR within the human rights movement.

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa

Explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance.

Stopping Wars and Making Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Stopping Wars and Making Peace

  • Categories: Law

War-stopping techniques in the Falklands / Christina Parajon -- Nagorno Karabakh : a war without peace / Nicholas W. Miller -- War and peace in Rwanda / Tom Dannenbaum -- War-stopping and peacemaking in Mozambique / Caroline Gross.

Africa and World War II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 565

Africa and World War II

This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.

Slavery by Any Other Name
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Slavery by Any Other Name

Ending slavery and creating empire in Africa: from the "Indelible stain" to the "light of civilization"--Law to practice: "certain excesses of severity"--The critiques and defenses of modern slavery: from without and within, above and below -- Mobility and tactical flight: of workers, chiefs, and villages -- Targeting chiefs: from "fictitious obedience" to "extraordinary political disorder" -- Seniority and subordination: disciplining youth and controlling women's labor -- An "absolute freedom" circumscribed and circumvented: "Employers chosen of their own free will" -- Upward mobility: "improvement of one's social condition" -- Conclusion: forced labor's legacy.

Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World

The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.