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Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities

Title: Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities / edited by Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah.
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

African Histories and Modernities

Subject

Poverty > Africa
Postcolonialism > Africa
Africa > Social conditions > 21st century
Africa > Economic conditions > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : change and continuity in contemporary Africa / Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah -- Mau Mau inventions and reinventions / Mickie Mwanzia Koster -- Race and social islands in Kenya's urban spaces / Brillian Besi Muhonja -- The Second World War and Africa's socio-economic infrastructures : a case study of the Nigerian railroad system / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- The Cold War and the emergence of economic divergences : Africa and Asia compared / S.U. Fwatshak -- Africa's debt burden and the HIPC initiative : Cameroon, from challenges to opportunity / Augustine Ayuk -- The effects of family size on socioeconomic status in Cameroon : a critical analysis / Consoler T. Teboh -- Music & the politics of culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS experience : implications for 'post-apartheid' discourse / Austin C. Okigbo -- A parallel evolution : the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, apartheid, and American civil rights / Myra Ann Houser -- The migration of professionals from Africa : assessing the impact of the 'brain drain' from the continent / JK Mapulanga-Hulston -- Conclusion : Africa that works / Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah.

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Sc D 14-1878

ISBN

9781137438911
1137438916

LCCN

2014006209

OCLC

875770835

Title

Contemporary Africa : challenges and opportunities / edited by Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African Histories and Modernities

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Falola, Toyin, editor, author.

Mbah, Emmanuel M., editor, author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 14-1878

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