Books in the Global Africa series

This book offers newly transcribed data and fills a lacuna in the scholarship of early Sierra Leone. It presents a narrative of children as they experienced a set of circumstances which were unique to Abolitionist historiography, and demonstrates how each element of that situation arose.

This book examines the detrimental impact of illicit financial flows on South Africäs development, political economy and transformation in the twenty-first century. It will be of interest to researchers across African Studies, Global Development, Political Science, Law and Corruption Studies.

This, the first major collection devoted to Nigerian women playwrights, will be an important resource for scholars of African theatre and performance, literature and women's studies.

Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africäs experiences with the development process. The book will be of interest to academics in the field of history, African studies and regional studies.

The mode of Africäs encounters with the rest of the world have in several ways, shaped and continue to shape the continent¿s social, political and economic development trajectories. Essays in this volume have addressed different aspects of these phases of encounters and resistance by Africa and the African Diaspora.

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called `big men¿ across Africa's fifty-four states.

This volume integrates geographical and historical perspectives to examine how processes of segregation, marginalization, resilience, and resistance are shaping cities across Africa. Who governs? Who should the city serve? And how can the built spaces and legacies of colonialism and prior development regimes be inclusively reconstructed?

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called 'big men' across Africa's fifty-four states.

The book provides new understandings on the issue of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for policy frameworks to help African governments and the world community to alleviate poverty. The contributors focus on practical issues as the best approach to formulate and implement poverty reduction strategies in contemporary Africa.

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to pose challenges in Africa. The contributors argue that, dissent, protest and most forms of disputes in Africa are the result of daily challenges that its people have faced and continue to encounter. These challenges include, amongst others, demands for transparency, good governance and accountability; waves of instability that have created insecurity in most parts of the continent, an unsustainable level of youth unemployment, rapid population growth, a continent-wide healthcare and poverty crises and numerous environmental challenges.

This book examines how modern Nigerian political institutions have grappled with the resurgence of traditional institutions of political leadership in the post-colonial era.

This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa's role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality.