Overview
- Expands scholarly and practice knowledge on Africa’s development trajectories
- Presents an academic, pragmatic, practical and policy toolkit for Africa’s development problems
- Provides new conceptual frameworks for understanding and solving Africa’s development problems within broader global sustainable development strategies
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 71)
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This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent’s development. It interrogates and answers established, critical, current and pragmatic problems confronting Africa today, and provides workable pathways out of the development problems, so that scholarship, policy and practice will be positively impacted. This volume adds great depth and extended breadth to the knowledge base on development of Africa. It provides excellent resources for academics, scholars, student, policy makers and all those interested in issues affecting Africa’s development.
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Keywords
- Poverty in Africa
- Education in Africa
- Industrialization and the Economy in Africa
- Violence and Terrorism in Africa
- Health and Diseases in Africa
- Climate Change in Africa
- Corruption in Africa
- Globalization and the Development of Africa
- Information Technology in Africa
- Africa and International Migration
- Social Policy Domains in Africa
- Childhood and Social Inclusion in Africa
- Gender in Africa
- Politics and Governance in Africa
- Africa and International Organizations
- The Media in Africa
- Aids and The Development of Africa
- development aid
Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Olayinka Akanle, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of The Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has won scholarly awards like being a World Social Science Fellow (WSSF) of The International Social Science Council (ISSC), Paris, France, Laureate of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and awardee, University of Ibadan Postgraduate School Prize for scholarly publication. He has published widely in journals, books, technical reports and encyclopedia. His research interests include: Development Studies, Sociology, Social Sciences, Social Policy, Social Theory, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Child, Youth, Gender and the Family in Post-Colonial Africa.
Jimi Adesina is Professor and the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Social Policy at the College of Graduate Studies, University of Sou
th Africa. Previously Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University and Professor and Head of Department at the University of the Western Cape, he serves on the Boards of the UN Research Institute for Social Development (Geneva). His research interests include Social Policy, Social Theory, and the Political Economy of Africa’s Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of Africa
Book Subtitle: Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses
Editors: Olayinka Akanle, Jìmí Olálékan Adésìnà
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66242-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66241-1Published: 10 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88204-8Published: 29 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66242-8Published: 25 October 2017
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 412
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Development Economics, Development Aid