Africa Now!

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Africa in the Twenty-First Century

   • Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo

   Pages 1-12

3. Conceptualising the Development Process in Twenty-First Century Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Right to Development in a Reconfigured Global Order: Conceptual Dynamism and South–South Cooperation

      • Stacey Links

      Pages 15-62

4. Environment, Natural Resources Management and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Oil, Ethnicism and Sustainable National Integration in Contemporary Nigeria

      • Abosede Omowumi Babatunde

      Pages 65-91

   3. A Phenomenological Study of the Development Outcomes of Extractive Sector Governance in Côte d’Ivoire

      • Kabran Aristide Djane

      Pages 93-100

   4. Land Degradation and Sustainable Human Development in Nigeria

      • Tolulope Adetayo Fajobi

      Pages 101-117

   5. Land, Natural Resources and the State in Kenya’s Second Republic

      • Connor Joseph Cavanagh

      Pages 119-147

5. Governance, Economy and Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Urban Agriculture, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Post-Apartheid Metropolitan Durban, South Africa

      • Sultan Khan

      Pages 151-165

   3. Internal Democracy and Leadership Crisis in the Nigerian Legislature

      • Taofeek Oluwayomi Gidado

      Pages 167-187

   4. Exploring Social Interactions Between Chinese Immigrants and Corruption in Nigeria

      • Allen Hai Xiao

      Pages 189-210

   5. Emerging Governance Crises in Twenty-First Century Nigeria

      • Samuel Chukwudi Agunyai

      Pages 211-239

6. Transnationalism, Education and Human Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. Migration of Nigerians to Canada for Undergraduate Education: Implications of the Brain Drain for Development

      • Charles T. Adeyanju

      Pages 243-265

   3. Imperialism and the African Indigenous Knowledge System

      • Taiwo Olabode Kolawole

      Pages 267-290

7. Crime, Conflicts and Regional Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291

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   2. North Africa: Can Common Security Challenges Promote Regional Integration?

      • Rawia Tawfik

      Pages 293-320

   3. The Ethnography of the Sex Trade among Bini Women in Southern Nigeria

      • Clementina O. Osezua

      Pages 321-340

This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative frameworks that will not just be participatory in conception and practice, but equally show a contextual workability for the varying aspects of the developmental enterprise in Africa. Despite having alternative and less cumbersome sources of funding, with commendable economic growth indices, and several economies among the fastest growing globally, African countries have been unable to transmute related opportunities into sustainable human development outcomes for majority of its citizenry. 


Over four rich sections the authors cover subjects ranging from environment and natural resource management, to governance, economy and sustainable development. The book continues with a section on Education and Human Development and a case study in transnationalism. The final section discusses crime, conflict and regional dynamics, including highly disputed topics such as forced migration and sex trade.


This indispensable resource will be of great use to students and researches globally in fields such as sociology, anthropology, environmental studies, politics and economics with a focus on contemporary Africa, as well as to policy planners and human rights activists invested in the future development of Africa.

• Social Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Development Geography
• Natural Resource Management
• African Development
• Social Policy
• Right to Development (RTD)
• Sustainable National Integration
• Sustainable Human Development
• Land Degradation
• Post-Apartheid South Africa
• Environmental Geography
• natural resources and energy economics

“The editors have to be congratulated for assembling an impressive range of continental-based African scholars and researchers proximate to the current status of African and some diasporic social research.  This compendious, timely handbook’s chapters represent the best in distilling the topical, theoretical, and case illustrative scholarship centering on  displacement and migration, while chapters variously synthesize scholarship on, amongst other thing, land and food security, indigenous technology, securitization, governance, the sex trade, and Chinese investment.  Highly recommended.” (Pablo Idahosa, Professor, African and Development Studies, York University UK)

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

  Adebusuyi Adeniran, Lanre Ikuteyijo

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran holds a PhD in Development Sociology. He is presently a senior lecturer and researcher at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and a Visiting Researcher at York University, Canada and The Nordic African Institute in Sweden.

Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD degree in Sociology and Anthropology specializing in the areas of criminology, migration and urbanization from the same university.

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