Contesting Africa's New Green Revolution

Jacqueline A Ignatova

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Propon... Lees meer

Kakuma Refugee Camp

Bram J Jansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally st... Lees meer

Development Planning in South Africa

John Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Ca... Lees meer

War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing t... Lees meer

Contesting Africa's New Green Revolution

Jacqueline A Ignatova

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Propon... Lees meer

Agricultural Reform in Rwanda

Chris Huggins

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-frien... Lees meer

Undoing Coups

Antonia Witt

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d'états. Within the African Union (AU), there has... Lees meer

Food Aid in Sudan

Susanne Jaspars

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon foll... Lees meer

Mobility Between Africa, Asia and Latin America

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, the... Lees meer

Entrepreneurs and SMEs in Rwanda

David L Poole

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom bein... Lees meer

Economic Diversification in Nigeria

Zainab Usman

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the 'curse' of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for ov... Lees meer

Africa's Shadow Rise

Pádraig Carmody, Peter Kragelund, Ricardo Reboredo

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• For years economists have spoken of 'Africa rising', and despite the global financial crisis, Africa continues to host some of the fastest growing eco... Lees meer

Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique

Tanja Kleibl

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing ... Lees meer

Kakuma Refugee Camp

Bram J Jansen

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally st... Lees meer

Negotiating Public Services in the Congo

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state infr... Lees meer

War, Women and Post-Conflict Empowerment

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Since the 1991-2002 civil conflict ended in Sierra Leone, the country has failed to translate the accomplishments of women's involvement in bringing t... Lees meer

Brics and Resistance in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as another example of f... Lees meer

Development Planning in South Africa

John Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Ca... Lees meer

Undoing Coups

Antonia Witt

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• Since the beginnings of independence, a number of African nations have been plagued by repeated coup d'états. Within the African Union (AU), there has... Lees meer

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine

Isak Niehaus

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 199... Lees meer

Liberia's Women Veterans

Leena Vastapuu

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• The Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and 2000s became notorious for their atrocities, and for the widespread use of child soldiers. Girls and young wo... Lees meer

Uganda

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an African success story and heavily b... Lees meer

The Politics of Fear in South Sudan

Daniel Akech Thiong

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fe... Lees meer

Negotiating Public Services in the Congo

• Paperback | Engels | Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
• The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state infr... Lees meer