This volume provides an in-depth consideration of Africa and how it fares in today’s globalised world. Its varied, but interrelated, perspectives touch on contemporary issues in international relations, especially as they relate to Africa’s development and global impacts. It highlights Africa’s experiences and positions on nuclear proliferation, gender equality, foreign policies, health, governance, war and changing power configurations with the economic emergence of China. It will appeal to historians, international relations experts, statesmen, policymakers and analysts, diplomats, students and general readers.
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
Having completed their overland journey of twenty thousand kilometers (twelve thousand miles) from Cardiff to Singapore, Shaun and his daughter, Hayley, have now flown over to India, to meet up with her two brothers, and also Hayley's boyfriend, for a...
A timely inquiry into how domestic politics and global health governance interact in Africa. Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over the local structure and authority...
The contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All these...
The recurrence of post-electoral crises, which hampers both the performative implementation of state development projects and nation-building, poses the challenge of rethinking the system of democratic governance imported from the West, in order to develop a new system that is...
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