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Routledge Studies in African Development


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The series features innovative and original research on African development from scholars both within and outside of Africa. It particularly promotes comparative and interdisciplinary research targeted at a global readership.

In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.

The series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).

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Everyday Urban Practices in Africa Disrupting Global Norms

Everyday Urban Practices in Africa: Disrupting Global Norms

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Nadine Appelhans, Carmel Rawhani, Marie Huchzermeyer, Basirat Oyalowo, Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane
July 03, 2024

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. International policy frameworks have created a new universal agenda for developing cities. However, these frameworks have also imposed global paradigms and discourses that ...

Social Justice Innovation in Africa

Social Justice Innovation in Africa

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Viljam Engström, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Laura Stark
June 12, 2024

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. In the twenty-first century, social innovation and entrepreneurship has attracted renewed attention as a way of promoting social justice and addressing ...

Sustainable Community Development in Ghana

Sustainable Community Development in Ghana

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Isaac Kofi Biney, John Kwame Boateng, Paul G. Nixon
June 03, 2024

This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post Covid-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances. Through the voices of African researchers, it explores the different responses that local, subnational, and ...

Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa Protection First and Justice Later

Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later

1st Edition

By Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau
September 25, 2023

This book explores the relationship between the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), challenging the assumption that they are always mutually reinforcing or complementary, and examining instead the many tensions which arise between the immediate imperative of ...

International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918

International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa: Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918

1st Edition

By George Forji Amin
September 22, 2023

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system. The book interrogates the economic and legal ...

Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa The Zambian Experience

Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa: The Zambian Experience

1st Edition

By Horman Chitonge
May 31, 2023

Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia’s industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the ...

Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa

Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa

1st Edition

By Fred Eboko
May 31, 2023

Public Policy Lessons from the AIDS Response in Africa examines how the interplay between national state dynamics in Africa and the global political arena has shaped the global AIDS response, and in this context develops a framework for analysing public policy action more broadly in contemporary ...

Microfinance, Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

Microfinance, Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Ghana

1st Edition

By Aaron Alesane
December 30, 2022

This book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region. The book analyses the current microfinance landscape and financial services in ...

Africa’s Economic Partnership with China An Holistic Analysis

Africa’s Economic Partnership with China: An Holistic Analysis

1st Edition

By Mussie Delelegn Arega
November 30, 2022

This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book argues that statistical and empirical evidence shows that China’s ...

Socioeconomic Shocks and Africa’s Development Agenda Lessons and Policy Directions in a Post-COVID-19 Era

Socioeconomic Shocks and Africa’s Development Agenda: Lessons and Policy Directions in a Post-COVID-19 Era

1st Edition

Edited By Evans Osabuohien, Gbadebo Odularu, Daniel Ufua, Romanus Osabohien
November 09, 2022

This book investigates how African countries respond to socioeconomic shocks, drawing out lessons to help to inform future policy and development efforts. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic affected all sectors of the economy, exposing substantial structural weaknesses and complexities ...

Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization

Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa: Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization

1st Edition

Edited By Fred Olayele, Yiagadeesen Samy
October 21, 2022

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable development in Africa. In addition to triggering the most severe recession in nearly a century, the ...

Social Protection, Pastoralism and Resilience in Ethiopia Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

Social Protection, Pastoralism and Resilience in Ethiopia: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Zeremariam Fre, Bereket Tsegay, Araya M. Teka, Nicole Kenton, John Livingstone
August 17, 2022

This book investigates the role of social protection amongst African pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, with a particular focus on Ethiopia. Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security ...

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