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Plundering
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ISBN: 9789463811644 9463811648 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam: Podium,

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Afrikaans literature : recollection, redefinition, restitution : papers held at the 7th Conference on South African Literature at the Protestant Academy, Bad Boll
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ISBN: 9789004659056 9004659056 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam : Brill Academic Publishers,

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Kwintet : literaire dialogen tussen Afrikaans en Nederlands: proeven van onderzoek
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ISBN: 9789463880947 Year: 2023 Publisher: Antwerpen Woolf

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Poverty, Inequality, and Innovation in the Global South
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ISBN: 9783031218415 9783031218408 9783031218422 9783031218439 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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"This book offers a systematic examination of poverty, inequality, and innovation from a perspective of the Global South. It examines and foregrounds historical backgrounds, context, measurements, policies, programmes, approaches to services including continuous monitoring and evaluation processes. The book also reflects on proposing that public policies should be based on rigorously and scientifically established evidence." -- Mulugeta F. Dinbabo, Professor of Development Studies, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa "A brilliant book on the nexus between poverty, inequality, innovation and development. The book opens new vistas and fresh pathways for Africa's development steeped in lived experiences from the Global South." --Saumya Chakrabarti, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Visva-Bharati (University), Santiniketan, India. Oliver Mtapuri is Professor at the School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. This edited volume analyzes the experiences learned in practice especially among small holder farmers to eradicate poverty. In other words, it discusses practical solutions which small scale farmers can use to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. This addresses the issue of inclusive and sustainability of projects leading to the notion of not leaving anyone behind. The book provides insights that can be translated into policy with potential to inform practice. It also has the potential to address the issue of rural urban migration by providing knowledge that is usable by small scale farmers, policy makers and entrepreneurs alike. The volume is written by authors from different countries, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, indicating the commonality of the problems of poverty and inequality. It contains insights from all these countries assembled together into an amalgam of practices ready to use and implement informed by evidence from the field as most of the chapters are based on empirical data.


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Timbuktu Unbound : Islamic Texts, Textual Traditions and Heritage in West Africa
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ISBN: 9783031348242 9783031348235 9783031348259 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Over een zombiefilm en gelukkige getallen
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ISBN: 9789021684505 Year: 2023 Publisher: Amsterdam Ploegsma

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African Development and Global Engagements : Policy, Climate Change, and COVID-19
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ISBN: 9783031212833 9783031212826 9783031212840 9783031212857 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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The book takes a cursory look at the drivers and the directions of Africa's developmental drive as a largely developing continent within the frameworks of the ever-dynamic global space, putting into perspective inherent challenges and opportunities of the 21stCentury, and thereafter. Being the continent with most youthful population, Africa appears to still lack in requisite innovative interventions to transmute such demographic dividend into economic opportunities for the benefits of the larger population. Instead, there has been increasing trend in South-North migrations among both skilled and unskilled Africans across all age groups. Besides, impacts of climate change on the continent have also implied unstructured migratory trend within and beyond the bounds of the continent. Africa has continued to play a feeble role in various United Nations (UN)-enabled 'Conference of Parties' (COP) negotiations, such as the COP-26 in Glasgow, Scotland (2021). The management of recent Covid-19 epidemic across the world has presented a clear pointer to Africa that except development is internally-driven, no one is ready to exogenously drive sustainable good life for others. Ostensible 'vaccine nationalism' that has dotted the production and availability of various Covid-19 vaccine brands, which has ultimately left Africa as the 'begging continent' one more time calls for in-depth interrogation in contextualizing what the place of Africa has been, is and to be within the global interactive mode.


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National Assembly and Legislative Effectiveness in Nigeria's Fourth Republic
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ISBN: 9789819907809 9789819907793 9789819907816 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore Springer Nature, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria's National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th-8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model 'Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score' used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly. Adebola Rafiu BAKARE is a lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.


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The Legislature in Nigeria's Presidential Democracy of the Fourth Republic : Power, Process, and Development
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ISBN: 9783031246951 9783031246944 9783031246968 9783031246975 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing

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This book investigates whether legislative institutions, state and national, in Nigeria's Fourth Republic have been able to harness constitutional powers to impact public policy. Presenting how the Nigerian state has not been able to showcase the expected dividends of presidential democracy since 1999, it analyzes the crisis of governance and its impact on political stability, social cohesion, and the livelihood of citizens. The book further discusses the depreciating infrastructure, corruption, and mismanagement of public resources, and shows how defiant attitudes of public political and bureaucratic officials define the new wave of corruption and profligacy in Nigeria, presenting this development as a result of a weakened legislature. The book displays the necessity of implementing a culture of accountability and discusses oversight mechanisms to make the executive accountable. These mechanisms are designed to ensure effective public service delivery. Finally, the book situates the legislative institutions in Nigeria within the context of the contributions of the National Assembly and the Assemblies of the State Houses to the development of this emerging democracy in Africa. The book will appeal to students and scholars of political science and public administration, as well as policy-makers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of democracy, separation of powers, governance, and Nigerian politics.


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India's Africa Policy : Challenges of a Millennia-Old Relationship
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ISBN: 9789811968495 9789811968488 9789811968501 9789811968518 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore Springer Nature, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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The book analyses how India's rise to the status of an emerging power has affected New Delhi's Africa policy, after sketching the historical evolution and normative underpinnings of Indo-African relations, and what challenges it has brought for New Delhi's engagement with the continent. India and Africa share a history dating back millennia. Today, India is one of Africa's biggest trading partner countries, second only to China. The country regularly extends lines of credit worth billions to African nations, and its pharmaceutical producers dominate many African markets; almost one-fifth of India's oil imports and more than one-quarter of its natural gas imports come from the continent. However, relations between India and Africa are far from being limited to economic cooperation. The book scrutinises three foreign policy fields: (1) India's foreign economic policy towards Africa with an in-depth analysis of Indo-African trade, investment and lines of credit; (2) New Delhi's development cooperation policy vis-à-vis Africa, its principles, instruments and volume; (3) India's politico-diplomatic foreign and security policy vis-à-vis Africa, including New Delhi's high-level diplomacy, security and diaspora policy as well as multilateral Africa policy. Philipp Gieg is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Relations and European Studies, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg, Germany. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Würzburg. His research and teaching focus on Africa's international relations, Indian and German foreign policy, global norms as well as blockchain technology and its implications for global governance. He has published on Chinese and US Africa policy, India-EU relations and edited two books on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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