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2010, author(s)-editor(s) Piet Konings
This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
Despite rapid urbanisation, Africa remains predominantly rural. This calls for decentralisation beyond the dominant concern by states and government with urban spaces. Rural areas, rural development and the future of rural settlements need to be understood and addressed in the context of the ongoing democratisation trends and the emergence and development of civil society. States have tended to tame rather than serve civil society in Africa. By establishing a single cultural reference and (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
Cameroon’s tropical forest is home to numerous plants and animals. It is also inhabited by Baka pygmies who are foragers and Bantu farmers. These communities have developed forest–dependent livelihoods, cultures and religions. Destruction of the forest by commercial and state interests, subsistence agriculture and the harvesting of products has necessitated a considerable upsurge in environmental protection projects to conserve and rehabilitate ecosystems, forests, soils and water resources. (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
This book emphasises that planning is essential, as the conservation approaches of the past may not work in an ever-changing warmer environment. It appraises current management strategies, assesses the biological and physical effects of climate change on natural systems in Cameroon and designs a planning and management framework for each natural system within the context of global warming. Climate change poses a complex bewildering array of problems for ecosystems. The key question is, what (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Munyaradzi Mawere
This is an engaged and extremely well-informed book on business and business ethics in a society with political and social-economic crises. As an engaging and engaged effort to bring a nexus between business ethics and business practices in any human society, the book invites the reader to partake in pressing debates on business ethics in times of crisis. The book provides a much needed interdisciplinary approach and marshals an extraordinary array of social and intellectual resources that (...)
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2011, author(s)-editor(s) Komla Tsey
In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africa’s own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development. (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Angus S.N.D Chidebelu,
Esendugue Gregory Fonsah
In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production. However, a few countries, especially in Francophone West Africa, have recognised the commercial importance of banana, and have used their special relationship with France to export bananas. This has led to the dualization of the banana sector, with the traditional system existing side by side with a modern sector geared towards export trade.
This book is one of the few comprehensive studies that have (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Victor N Gomia
This book draws on years of rich empirical research on radio drama production in Cameroon to offer a strikingly new perspective in Development Theatre discourse in Africa. Chronicling the history and evolution of Development Theatre practice in Anglophone Africa and arguing for literary forms that address the basic everyday realities of ordinary people in a medium they understand, the book revisits the crucial question of utilitarian literature in a continent that continues to brandish a (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Fatou Diop Sall ,
Ramata Molo Thioune
L’accès des femmes aux ressources foncières a fait l’objet de plusieurs recherches et de publications. Cependant rares sont celles qui ont exploré cette problématique dans la perspective du genre, des droits et de la citoyenneté des femmes rurales. En outre, chercheur-es et praticien-nes du développement ont déploré le manque criard de statistiques et de données fiables, désagrégées selon plusieurs perspectives (genre, ethnicité, localisation agro-écologique, entre autres) permettant des analyses fines (...)
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2012, author(s)-editor(s) Lawrence Kyaligonza Achal,
Raymond Chegedua Tangonyire
In the instinct to survive those who are able to dominate the competition go about their activities as if others (humans and non-humans) did not matter or did not have interests. Selfishness becomes more prevalent as a people move from elementary economic systems to modern economic systems. The major reason why economic systems collapse is human selfishness. Despite all the achievements in science and technology, there are still poor people in the world and environmental cataclysms have (...)
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