South Africa's Gold Mines & the Politics of Silicosis

Jock McCulloch

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 30
• Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners ... Lees meer

Inside Mining Capitalism

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 43
• A groundbreaking analysis of 21st century labour practices in the mining industry and the new scramble for industrial power on the African continent. ... Lees meer

Identity Economics

Kate Meagher

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 25
• This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in... Lees meer

Zimbabwe's Land Reform

Ian Scoones Et Al

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 26
• Challenges the commonly held myths about Zimbabwe's land reform. Ten years after the land invasions of 2000, this book provides the first full account... Lees meer

Gender and Genocide in Burundi

Patricia O Daley

• Hardcover | Engels | African Issues
• Burundi, like Rwanda, Congo, and Uganda, is linked to patterns of recurrent genocidal violence that have shaped events in the African Great Lakes regi... Lees meer

Somalia

Peter D Little

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues
• In the wake of the collapse of the Somali government in 1991, a "second" or "informal" economy based on trans-border trade and smuggling is thriving. ... Lees meer

The Criminalization of the State in Africa

Jean-Francois Bayart, Stephen Ellis, Beatrice Hibou

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues
• The growth of fraud and smuggling on a major scale, the plundering of natural resources, the privatisation of state institutions, the development of a... Lees meer

Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana

Kenneth Good

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 23
• Analyses the limits to democracy in Botswana. Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in ... Lees meer

Letting Them Die

Iucn Regional Office for Southern Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | African Issues
• "In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die." --Pieter Dirk Uys, South African satirist Today in South Africa, HIV/AIDS... Lees meer

Africa Rising?

Ian Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 33
• The Africa Rising discourse maintains that economic growth, spurred by the BRICS, comes with improved governance, and that diversifying Africa's inter... Lees meer

Letting Them Die

Catherine Campbell

• Paperback | African Issues
• South Africa has the worst AIDS epidemic in the world...this book highlights the barriers and constraints to controlling the crisis. Lees meer

Becoming Somaliland

Mark Bradbury

• Paperback | African Issues
• Why has Somaliland not followed Somalia into 'state collapse'? Lees meer

Volunteer Economies

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 37
• Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in ... Lees meer

Guns & Governance in the Rift Valley

Kennedy Agade Mkutu

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues
• Recent estimates indicate that more than 640 million small arms and 16 billion rounds of ammunition circulate the globe yearly. In North East Africa a... Lees meer

Africa's Land Rush

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 36
• Interrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced ... Lees meer

The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials

Charles Schaefer, Girmachew Alemu Aneme

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 24
• This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place fro... Lees meer

From the Pit to the Market

Diane Frost

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 31
• Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and margin... Lees meer

The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

Douglas H Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 38
• Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil wa... Lees meer

Land, Investment & Politics

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 40
• Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landsc... Lees meer

Lie of the Land

Robin Mearns

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 1
• Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. This book addresses the issue of how environmen... Lees meer

Congo-Paris

Janet Macgaffey, Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues
• Congo-Paris Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga Globalization as practiced by Congolese traders... Lees meer

Fighting for the Rain Forest

Paul Richards

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 2
• Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity. Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'? What appears as random, anarchic violen... Lees meer

China's Aid & Soft Power in Africa

Kenneth King

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 32
• China's increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically. Why does China run one of the... Lees meer

Electricity in Africa

Christopher Gore

• Paperback | Engels | African Issues | nr. 39
• Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offering... Lees meer