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This book aims to examine how informality of spatial governance has influenced the evolution of the conflict in Somalia and the region. It not only reopens the debate over how the irregular conflicts can transcend national boundaries, but also presents the complexities of spatial governance on national and regional security. The book examines how socio-political and identity bonds play out in spatial governance sometimes resulting to informal control of vast national territories. The book argues that such informally governed spaces increase the level of security threat vulnerability at the national and regional levels. The book therefore adds to the existing literature which has not only to be dominated by discourses on the impact of identity on the conflict but also fall short of connecting the impact of informal spatial governance on security. Examining how informality in governance in one country can impact on the security of an entire region is a key consideration in emerging peacebuilding strategies. Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Ph.D., teaches international relations at Egerton University. He currently holds the Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral fellowship at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, and is a non-resident fellow at the Irregular Warfare Initiative (a joint project of Princeton University and Westpoint). He has been a visiting fellow under the India-Africa Security fellowship program at MP-IDSA, New Delhi, India, an Inter-Russia visiting fellow at the MGIMO University, a Global Africa young researchers’ fellow at LASDEL and a Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, at the George Manson University. Md. Nazmul Islam, Ph.D., is a distinguished academic, a researcher and currently serving as an assistant professor of Political Science and Public Administration and the head of Türkiye, Asia, and Indo-Pacific Studies, ULİSA, at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), Turkiye. He teaches postgraduate courses in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ankara University and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU). Besides, Prof. Islam worked as a special advisor at the Foreign Relations and Protocol Department, Grand National Assembly of Türkiye—Turkish Parliament (TBMM). Billy Agwanda is a Ph.D. presidential scholar at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He has published in several international journals such as Politics and Governance, African Journal on Terrorism; the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs; and African Journal on Conflict Resolution and contributed book chapters in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Conflict Response and Leadership in Africa. His interests include peace and conflict resolution, critical terrorism studies, international security and foreign policy analysis. He has mainly worked as an adjunct lecturer, as a teaching assistant and as a junior project coordinator for international training projects.

Africa --- African Politics. --- Politics and government.

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“A city like Durban can be taken as a looking glass to think the world. This is the wager of this book. Focusing his research on Abahlali baseMjondolo, a prominent shack dweller organization, Al-Bulushi explores an amazing fabric of struggle and self-organization that resonates in other global landscapes and foreshadows the coming of a new age for the alter-globalization movement. In the dire conjuncture we are living through, this book opens new vistas for a politics of liberation.” Sandro Mezzadra, author of In the Marxian Workshops “Yousuf Al-Bulushi narrates an in-depth history and political geography of shack dweller struggles in Durban, South Africa, and provides a radical template for urban studies.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Settler Colonialism “Travelling with Al-Bulushi takes us beyond the surfaces of rhizomatic textures of the rainbow nation and its fake racial cohesion to systemic, structural, and institutional violence. Ruptures is an important contribution to both urban studies and African Studies, and indeed to deeper understandings of the operations of the modern world-system. I have nothing but praise for this erudite and elegantly delivered work which decolonizes our minds as it offers a devastating indictment of racial capitalism.” Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism This book examines one of the most prominent social movements to have emerged in Africa in the 21st century, Abahlali baseMjondolo. It asks: how are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid geographies and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? Thinking at the intersection of Marxism, the black radical tradition, and movement theory from across the global south, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City offers refreshing theoretical insights based on the local realities of the struggle for land, housing, and dignity in the city of Durban. Yousuf Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine, USA. .

Political science. --- Africa --- African Politics. --- Politics and government.

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This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during fieldwork. Finally, it assesses the implications of the findings for the conceptualization and provision of current and future HIV/AIDS policies and programs in Africa. This monograph will appeal to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of HIV/AIDS in the Global South as well as academics and students. Samantha Page is Associate Professor of International Development Studies, Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Adger, Norway.

Economic development. --- Africa --- Regionalism. --- Development Studies. --- African Politics. --- Politics and government.

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This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses. It offers a discursive framework on ways to examine the conceptualizations of African social development and a critical discourse on debunking the misconceptions that are attached to African location in the global arena. The volume challenges the danger of minimizing and oversimplifying the role of Africa in the international space. This will be ideal for researchers, students and scholars in the areas of African and gender studies, development, politics and education. Njoki Nathani Wane is Professor of African Indigenous Education, Black Feminisms, Anti-colonial and Decolonization Thought, University of Toronto, Canada.

Africa --- Economic development. --- Regionalism. --- African Politics. --- Development Studies. --- Regionalism. --- Politics and government.

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This open access book discusses and addresses the compelling questions concerning the ideals of citizenship, the processes of learning to fulfill these ideals, and possibilities of education in fostering citizenship. Rather than advocating for one framework, the authors demonstrate the continuously contested nature of the concept of citizenship as theoretically discussed and practically experienced. The monograph combines, in an unconventional way, selected philosophical accounts and everyday experiences from certain locations in Tanzania and Uganda. It provides contributions from philosophical ideas drawing on scholars such as Chantal Mouffe, Rosi Braidotti, Theodor Adorno, and Étienne Balibar on the one hand, and the conceptions articulated by groups of inhabitants of rural and urban settings in Africa, on the other hand. Therefore, the book offers fresh readings under the lenses of citizenship and learning. Katariina Holma is Professor of Education and Head of theResearch Unit at the University of Oulu, Finland. Tiina Kontinen is Associate Professor in International Development Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Citizenship --- Africa --- African Studies --- Development --- International development --- Democracy --- Study and teaching --- African Politics. --- Politics and government.