HOME BOOKS JOURNALS SUBMIT YOUR MANUSCRIPT SALES EDITORIAL SERVICES CURRENCY CONVERTER LATEST NEWS LINKS MEMBER LOGIN Enter Search Keyword Title Author ISBN Adonis-Abbey's Online Book Store FORTHCOMING TITLES Showing (36 to 4) of 68 books Who is an African? Identity, Citizenship and the Making of the Africa-Nation (Foreword: Yakubu Gowon)  Who is an African? At face value, the answer seems obvious. Surely, everyone knows who the African is, it would seem. But the answer becomes less obvious once other probing qualifiers are added to the question. How is the African identity constructed in the face of the mosaic of identities that people of African ancestry living w............ View Book Details Democracy and Culture: An African Perspective Since the end of the Cold War, Africa has witnessed a political rebirth and second liberation as decades of autocracy and dictatorship became gradually replaced by a new wave of democratization and plural political competition. This political rebirth has revived the Afro-optimism that accompanied the independence decade of the 1960s. This optimism, however, co-exists ............ View Book Details Conflict Management in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges   In Conflict Management in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges, Dr. Oshita O. Oshita, one of the leading peace researchers in Nigeria, interrogates a number of cross-cutting issues and challenges that may be encountered in the process of engaging with conflict mitigation in Nigeria. He explores the complex issues involved just as he analyses the challenges arising f............ View Book Details Internationalisation and Economic Growth Strategies in Ghana: A Business Perspective Economic growth is one of the most cost-effective ways of dealing with poverty in Africa. Growth lifts many people out of poverty and at the same time generates the government revenues necessary for investments within the social sector. Thus the design and implementation of business development policies remains a major challenge in most African countries. This entails............ View Book Details Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow:Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement The Niger Delta region of Nigeria had a long standing history of crises even before the late Ken Saro-Wiwa helped to bring these crises to the attention of the world. The international community increasingly needs Nigerian oil largely because of the political dislocations and uncertainties in some of the major oil-producing regions of the world. But unfortunately th............ View Book Details Healthcare Services in Africa: Overcoming Challenges, Improving Outcomes The challenges to better health services in Africa are well known: Africa lags behind all regions of the world, including other developing regions, on all indicators of better health. A recent report from the World Health Organisation for instance shows that while Africa has 20% of the world’s sick people, it has only 4% of its healthcare workers – many of............ View Book Details Violent Conflicts, Fragile Peace: Perspectives on Africa's Security Problems The African continent has experienced too many violent conflicts leading to much loss of life, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of productive socio-economic activity, displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, and the diversion of scarce resources towards arms procurement. It is clear to all that for sustainable development of the African continent, it ............ View Book Details Africa in Global Power Play: Debates, Challenges and Potential Reforms Africa in The Global Power Play: Debates, Challenges and Potential Reforms is a compilation of insightful and analytical articles that were published in different issues of the journal, African Renaissance, between 2004 and 2006. Most of the articles are from established academics, development practitioners, policymakers and policy-moulders as well as stakeholders in ............ View Book Details Somalia at the Crossroads: Challenges and Perspectives in Reconstituting a Failed State Since the fall of the Siad Bare regime in Somalia in 1991 and the fratricidal war that it unleashed in its wake, Somalia has been without an effective central government. Instead, warlords and their armed bandits have been controlling different parts of the country, with the former British colony of northern Somaliland unilaterally proclaiming its independence.  ............ View Book Details State- Society Relations in Nigeria: Democratic Consolidation, Conflicts and Reforms State – Society Relations in Nigeria explores the problematics of democratic consolidation, conflicts and reforms in Nigeria’s contemporary political history. It analyses the, history, structures and dynamics of low intensity conflicts, the neo-liberal economic and political reforms, the war against corruption, as well as the challenges of democratization,............ View Book Details Africa in China's Global Strategy   China, in the past five years, has developed a proactive global policy and is emerging as a new global power with particular focus on developing countries in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa.   What is the role of Africa in China’s emerging global foreign policy? In 1998, China’s aid to Africa was $107 million. By 20............ View Book Details Management and Economic Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives One of the major challenges facing Sub-Saharan African organizations today is how to effectively manage their resources. Though the importance of effective management of organizational resources is generally acknowledged, published research on the theme is disappointingly scarce. This book hopes to contribute in filling the lacuna.   Contributors to the volume,............ View Book Details [First Page] [Prev] 1 2 3 4 5 6 [Next] [Last Page]   Mailing List Click here to unsubscribe © Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved 2003. Please visit Holler Africa our free online magazine at: www.hollerafrica.com