Books in the Routledge Contemporary Africa series

The book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and "indigenous" knowledge in academic research, teaching and learning programmes and beyond.

This book investigates how culture is used to reflect on change in Zimbabwe, focusing predominantly on Mnangagwäs 2017 coup, but also uncovering deeper roots for how renewal and transition are conceived in the country.

This book explores Nigeriäs progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies.

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.

This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.

Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, this book examines the depiction of the Delta region of the Niger through literature and other cultural art forms.

This book brings together African and European experts from a variety of disciplines to examine the origins and current state of the East African Community (EAC). It will be of interest to researchers working on economic development, international relations, peace and security, and African studies.

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa "from below". Drawing on empirical research conducted across 14 countries, the book documents the processes, practices and meanings of legal identification in Africa from the 1950s.

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.

This book uses the lens of African and diasporic literature and film to explore how the practice of gendered violence breaches the human rights of people, especially women, children and minority groups.

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent.

This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.

This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa.

This book explores various aspects of intra-national elite football in Africa, drawing upon the expertise of notable scholars from across the world.

This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage.

This book examines the relationship between inequalities and identities in relation to an unprecedented state advocacy of "ethnic rights" in post-civil war Ethiopia.

Using a range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media. They pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media.

The book reflects on the role of the creative economies in a range of African countries (namely Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda). Chapters explore how creative economies emerge and can be supported in African countries.

Offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject, Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.

This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age.