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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... Social Change World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and Biodiversity World Food Programme World Health Organization World Trade Organization Zimbabwe Adult Learners Association ...
... social development and urban governance, and has researched these issues in South Asia and South Africa. She is co-author of Unitinga Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg (Earthscan, 2002) and editor of A City ...
... Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Professor Mamdani's current work focuses on internal conflict and civil war in Africa, with particular attention given to the political and social restructuring that such conflict elicits ...
... social and political structures have broken down, and the horrifying consequences for families, communities, even whole societies of the continued advance of HIV/ AIDS. Global support for the African Union is vital to help them check ...
... social and political forces that have lain and overlain the continent from the earliest times. In this matter Africa is simply a more extreme example of the general lack of historical knowledge, the low esteem in which it is held, and ...