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The Development of Africa

Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses

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Editors:
  1. Olayinka Akanle

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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  2. Jìmí Olálékan Adésìnà

    1. SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa (UNISA), Tshwane, South Africa

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  • 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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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The Development of Africa: Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses

    • Olayinka Akanle, Jìmí Olálékan Adésìnà
    Pages 1-8

  3. Conceptualizing and Framing Realities of Africa’s Development

    • Abel Akintoye Akintunde, Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale
    Pages 9-28

  4. Africa and the Development Narratives: Occurrences, History and Theories

    • Augustine Okechukwu Agugua
    Pages 29-52

  5. Theorizing Africa’s Development Problem

    • Natéwindé Sawadogo, Evéline M. F. W. Sawadogo Compaoré
    Pages 53-68

  6. Poverty in Africa

    • Kolawole Emmanuel Omomowo
    Pages 69-94

  7. Education in Africa

    • Chizoba Vivian Nwuzor
    Pages 95-114

  8. The Land Question, Agriculture, Industrialization and the Economy in Zimbabwe: A Critical Reflection

    • Busani Mpofu
    Pages 115-132

  9. Africa’s Governance Travails After More Than Two Decades of Democratic Experiments

    • Madalitso Zililo Phiri
    Pages 133-153

  10. The Limitations of Peace Negotiations and Identity Constructs in Conflict-Prone Countries in Africa: A Focus on the Central African Republic (CAR)

    • Wendy Isaacs-Martin
    Pages 155-171

  11. Africa and the Media

    • Damilola Adegoke
    Pages 173-188

  12. Retooling Africa’s Development: Child and Youth Inclusion in the Development Agenda

    • Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie
    Pages 189-206

  13. Health and Diseases in Africa

    • Benjamin Anaemene
    Pages 207-226

  14. Corruption and Africa

    • Richard A. Aborisade, Nurudeen B. Aliyyu
    Pages 227-254

  15. Africa and Climate Change Refugees’ Quandary: Kenya Perspectives

    • Joseph M. Karanja, Zakaria Abdul-Razak
    Pages 255-267

  16. Gender in Africa

    • Olabisi Sherifat Yusuff
    Pages 269-288

  17. Non-state Actors as the Strategic Realm in Africa’s Development

    • Olayinka Akanle
    Pages 289-306

  18. Globalization and Africa’s Development

    • Olanrewaju Emmanuel Ajiboye
    Pages 307-322

  19. Breaking the Incubus? The Tripartite Free Trade Agreements and the Prospects of Developmental Integration in Africa

    • Samuel O. Oloruntoba
    Pages 323-336

  20. Peace and Security in Africa: United Nations Challenges

    • Primus Fonkeng
    Pages 337-356
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Olayinka Akanle

  • SARChI Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa (UNISA), Tshwane, South Africa

    Jìmí Olálékan Adésìnà

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

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