Towards Building an African Framework of Development How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth? The…
Novel Perspectives on African and Black Diasporic Literature Through multiple points of resistance, The Repressed Expressed underscores how hard it is to build a community in…
African StudiesDevelopment StudiesPolitical History & TheoryPoliticsSocial Sciences
Development Perspectives from the South
Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the…
Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the…
AnthropologyMedical ScienceScience, Technology, MedecineSocial Sciences
The Vanishing Black African Woman: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice (Volume Two)
A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the…
AnthropologyMedical ScienceScience, Technology, MedecineSocial Sciences
The Vanishing Black African Woman: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice (Volume One)
A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the…
Outline of the FS (Fear and Self-scrutiny) Methodology of Ubuntu Despite all the talk about African Renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by…
Ethnographic Insights from the BaTonga Community Museum in Zimbabwe Zimbabwean history is rooted in ethnic and cultural identities, inequalities, and injustices which the post-colonial…
African StudiesPeace & SecurityPoliticsSocial Sciences
Violence, Politics and Conflict Management in Africa
Envisioning Transformation, Peace and Unity in the Twenty-First Century This volume critically interrogates, from different angles and dimensions, the resilience of conflict and violence…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective This book explores the symbiotic relationship between philosophy and culture. Every philosophy emerges as a reaction to, or as justification for…