Books in the Routledge African Studies series

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa.

This book deconstructs Eurocentric narratives and showcases local voices to re-examine childhood in Eastern Africa.

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africäs creative heritage.

This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. It will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.

This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business.

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This edited volume widens perspectives on cultural inventiveness in Africa by exploring forms of cultural entrepreneurship since the 1990s. Contributions illustrate the diversity of these initiatives by presenting the biographies of female and male entrepreneurs who venture into domains as diverse as religious proselytism, politics, tourism, media,

This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media.

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora.

The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community is not an exception and neither is any other philosophical community. There is a widespread notion in the West that philosophy originated in Greece and found its way throughout Europe, from where it migrated to Africa. This book argues that Philosophy did not migrate to African from anywhere but that it is radically native to all communities. The chapters cover the erasure of African philosophy, African philosophical departures, the threat that Christianity has posed to African philosophy, African legal philosophy, African musical aesthetics and connections with classical philosophy. Arguing that the landscape of philosophy has a place not only for Africans but also for all human beings and that African philosophers are among the architects of this landscape, this book is an important read for scholars and students of African philosophy.

This volume facilitates a closer examination of the conceptual framing of conflict sexual violence from the multiple perspectives of researchers, community service organizations, and policy workers. Rather than "mapping" the various dynamics of sexual violence and conflict, itself an important task, the volume explores conceptual gaps and emerging research directions.

This edited collection systematically addresses issues about the nature of conflicts surrounding land, its distribution and its usage, and natural resources including the management of minerals in Africa, through interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives. It is intended to make a significant contribution to both academic and policy debates.

Critical postcolonial theorists ask why Africa is failing to extricate itself from poverty and underdevelopment. This book fills a large and long-standing gap in the study of African development, taking on a critical postcolonial approach to examine, investigate and discuss challenges faced by African countries in their quest for development. The approach focuses on the intersection of educational paradigms, sustainable economic development methodologies and democratic political engagement theories to determine possibilities for economic growth and social development in Africa.

This book explores competing discourses on youth culture in Africa and the diaspora. Contributors examine constructions of African/black youth cultural identities in literature, popular culture, and social media. Students and scholars interested in youth and black studies will find this volume to be an excellent resource.

This volume presents a wide array of essays that offer insight into the intersection of expressive culture, daily life, and global politics through analyses of power, colonialism, modernity, and change in Africa and the African diaspora. These essays challenge us to reconsider the role of culture in the making of larger discourses of politics in a global setting.