Towards a New Map of AfricaBen Wisner, Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment, Rutendo Chitiga Routledge, 23/05/2012 - 373 من الصفحات 'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily diverse Africa is and how much it has changed in the last 20 years.Full of fresh thinking on problems that face Africa and new African approaches to development.' This ground-breaking book, with a foreword by former President of Ireland (199-997) and UN Human Rights Commissioner (1997 2002) Mary Robinson, uniquely distils the complex issues surrounding Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. African and Western scholars provide a fascinating 'map' for the reader to navigate between issues such as urban and rural livelihoods, the potential of fresh water fishing, health, the HIV/AIDS crisis, conflict and efforts at peacemaking. Also included are critical assessments of Africa's role in the global economy, the growth of regional economic cooperation within Africa, the influence of ethnicity on the continent's politics, the evolution of its political institutions, and the impact of Africa's legal systems on its development. A substantial introductory essay by the editors measures the distance Africa has travelled and the lessons it has learned since Africa in Crisis, the classic Earthscan book, was published in 1985. Ben Wisner is visiting research fellow at DESTIN, London School of Economics and at Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, and visiting professor of environmental studies, Oberlin College, USA. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Rutendo Chitiga is a freelance writer and editor, and has a postgraduate degree in environment and development. |
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... the African Studies Association of the USA (1998). He is the founding Director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda, and former President (1999–2002) of the Council for the Development of Social Science Notes on Contributors.
... the African Studies Association of the USA (1998). He is the founding Director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda, and former President (1999-2002) of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.
... East African Community has been relaunched (potentially combining the internal markets of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), and trade within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) continues to grow (see Ramsamy Introduction 7.
... Uganda, Eritrea and Burkina Faso, where presidents are keen to ensure that they stay in power and show themselves willing to change the constitution to achieve this goal. The move towards more democratic systems has been accompanied by ...
... Uganda's new land legislation is instructive in this regard. Highly effective lobbying and alliance-building strategies by Ugandan women's groups and lawyers resulted in a clause on spousal co-ownership being included in the draft land ...