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Why Industrial Revolution By-Passes Africa
Why Industrial Revolution By-Passes Africa is a compelling analysis of the complex dimensions of development in Africa. It identifies and explains the failure of innovations and knowledge in Africa to generate industrial revolution in the continent using two main models: the motivation and growth-ladder models. Focusing on the indifference and secrecy among innovators............
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Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa
Many African countries are caught up in perennial or recurrent political conflicts that often culminate in devastating wars. These flaring conflicts and wars create harrowing economic hardships, dire refugee problems, and sustain a sense of despair in such countries.   By their nature, these conflicts and wars affect writers in profound and sometimes paradoxica............
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Egypt, Energy and the Environment: Critical Sustainability Perspectives
Pure environmentalism and pure resource exploitation can be integrated together to form an encompassing sustainability solution. This is the main message of this book based on an innovative “structure-concentration-incentives” methodology applied to Egypt. This methodology provides a basis for achieving environmental sustainability based on endogenous sour............
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Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu
Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu offers a creative, innovative and holistic approach to understanding organizational leadership using the principles embodied in the African philosophy of personhood known as ubuntu – or the essence of being human. Using African proverbs, folktales and indigenous concepts, the book discusses the organizationa............
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Fragmented Families, Poverty, and Women’s Reproductive Narratives in Post Apartheid South Africa
Fragmented Families  addresses a central question in the demographic debates on poverty and fertility transition in southern Africa:. In what ways do women’s recurrent encounters with poverty serve to shape their sexual unions, social relationships and reproductive practices? The book focuses on the lives of a group of mothers and daughters from fifteen fam............
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Women in Business: Theory, Practice and Flexible Approaches
In recent years, a record number of women have been breaking out of corporate life and embracing entrepreneurial careers  partly as a redress to the discriminations they experience in paid employments. Female entrepreneurship is emerging as a potent force as more women emerge as business owners even in economic sectors that were previously thought to be the prese............
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Post-Cold War Conflicts in Africa: Case studies of Liberia and Somalia
During the Cold War ideological and politico-military rivalries mostly dictated the actions of the competing blocs, including their involvement in foreign conflicts. In Africa for instance, the East-West rivalry of the time not only fuelled conflicts but also appeared to undermine the use of diplomacy as a tool for peacemaking and conflict resolution. With the fall of............
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Cohesion, Growth and Social Development: Essays on Community Engagement
Cohesion, Growth and Social Development is a collection of philosophical essays, focusing on compassion and the respect for human dignity. The essays discuss a number of contemporary issues - the human carnage in Darfur, the politics in the United Nations, and the epidemic of poverty in some countries. It also discusses how and why people and communities develop certa............
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State-Building In Post-Liberation Eritrea: Challenges, Achievements and Potentials
State-Building In Post-Liberation Eritrea explores the potentials, achievements and challenges facing Eritrea in its efforts to construct a viable state after it became independent in 1991(de facto) and 1993 (de jure). It also examines the post-liberation experience of state building focusing on the institutionalisation, bureaucratisation and democratisation of state ............
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Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa
The study of African language pedagogy and use in the Diaspora was initiated in the 1960s as African countries attained independence from colonial powers. In the continent, the enthusiasm for the use of indigenous languages and scholarship has remained relatively moderate as scholars are conflicted in their loyalty to imperial languages. The attitude towards the use o............
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