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African Studies Development Studies Social Sciences

The Challenge of African Potentials

Conviviality, Informality and Futurity This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana.…

Development Studies Economic Development Economics Law Social Sciences Taxation

Financing Africa

by Attiya Waris

Financing Africa’s development requires ingenuity, discipline, and an understanding of fiscal systems – the entirety of government revenues and expenditures, including taxation and debt.…

Development Studies Economic Development Economics Environmental Management Nature and the Environment Social Sciences

Natural Resource Endowment and the Fallacy of Development in Cameroon

by Lotsmart Fonjong

Cameroon is rich in petroleum, minerals, tropical forests, wildlife, water systems, fertile lands, and much more. Paradoxically however, most citizens live in abject poverty…

Development Studies Economic Development Economics Social Sciences

In the Heat of Africa’s Underdevelopment: Africa at the Crossroads -Time to Deliver

by John W. Forje

The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication…

Development Studies Social Sciences

The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe

by Innocent Chirisa

Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe. A geological era, now called the Anthropocene, has been coined…

African Studies Anthropology Development Studies Social Sciences

From African Peer Review Mechanisms to African Queer Review Mechanisms?

by Artwell Nhemachena and Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa

Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Empire and the Decolonisation of African Orifices Tracing recent bouts of globalised Mugabephobia to Robert Mugabe’s refusal to be neoimperially penetrated,…

African Studies Development Studies Law Property & Land Law Social Sciences

Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People

by Jairos Kangira, Artwell Nhemachena and Nelson Mlambo

Putting Into Perspective Land Ownership and Ancestry in Decolonising Contemporary Zimbabwe Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits…

African Studies Development Studies Peace & Security Politics Social Sciences

Violence, Peace and Everyday Modes of Justice and Healing in Post-Colonial Africa

by Ngonidzashe Marongwe, Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri and Munyaradzi Mawere

Violence in its various proportions, genres and manifestations has had an enduring historical legacy the world over. However, works speaking to approaches aimed at…

African Studies Development Studies Economic Development Economics Social Sciences

Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty

by Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa, Nkosinothando Mpofu, Artwell Nhemachena and Howard Chitimira

Decolonising the Neo-Imperial Socio-Economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Century The emergent so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is regarded by some as a panacea…

Development Studies Social Sciences Urban Studies

Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation and Climate Change

by Innocent Chirisa and Christopher Munyaradzi Mabeza

Cases and Experiences from Zimbabwe As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has been called global weirding, the term resilience…

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