Routledge Contemporary Africa
Language Matters in Namibia: History, Development, and Contemporary Dynamics
1st Edition
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By Collen Sabao, Petrus Angula Mbenzi, Gerda-Elisabeth Wittmann
November 20, 2026
Language Matters in Namibia investigates the diversity of Namibia’s ethnolinguistic communities and cultures, considering how languages intersect with questions of nationhood, memory, identity, and decoloniality. Namibia is a country characterised by multilingualism, with 13 officially recognised ...
Russia and China in Africa: Towards a New World Order?
1st Edition
By Bohumil Doboš
September 04, 2026
As both China and Russia seek to extend their global influence and challenge the liberal world order, Africa is becoming increasingly critical to contemporary geopolitics. This book argues that it is within Africa that we can best understand the synergies and conflicts between Russian and Chinese ...
Ethiopia's Urban Transformation: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Thomas Betschart
August 24, 2026
This book investigates the ways in which Ethiopia’s urban landscape is being reshaped by an infrastructure boom in megaproject corridors and industrial parks. Drawing on extensive immersive fieldwork, the book considers how citizens negotiate, appropriate, or resist these engineered spaces. Tracing...
African Fans of European Football: Cultural Globalisation in Kenya and Zimbabwe
1st Edition
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe, Solomon Waliaula
July 20, 2026
This book examines the increasing influence of European football in African societies, considering the processes and significance of being a fan and what this means for the wider globalisation of popular culture. Focussing on fan cultures in Kenya and Zimbabwe, the book argues that instead of ...
The Horn of Africa since 2018: Continuities, Transformations, and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Jan Záhořík, Aleksi Ylönen
July 20, 2026
This book takes stock of developments in the Horn of Africa since 2018, a key time of political turbulence marked by revolution, military coups, and civil war as well as alliances, peace deals, reforms, and reconciliation processes. Bringing together a group of experienced and younger scholars from...
The Economy of Resourcefulness in Kinshasa: Informality, Small-Scale Trade, and Social Networks
1st Edition
By Sylvie Ayimpam
June 16, 2026
How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary ...
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
1st Edition
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By viola c. milton, Winston Mano
May 22, 2026
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an ...
Higher Education Transformation in Africa: A Quest for Epistemological Rupture
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By Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Logan Govender, Dennis Zami Atibuni
May 22, 2026
This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa. The book considers the multifaceted challenges facing higher education in the continent and uses the concept of ...
Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Identity, Community, and Change
1st Edition
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
May 22, 2026
Marriage has always occupied a profound cultural and social significance in Zimbabwean society, but the forms and meanings attached to marriage have changed in recent decades. Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe provides a social analysis of the institution, highlighting how it is changing and ...
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors
1st Edition
By Tracy Tinga
May 22, 2026
Over the last 25 years, the "Africa Rising" discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals. This book critically examines that discourse, analyzing recurring themes, tropes, metaphors, and imagery. It traces the evolution ...
Pan-Africanism in Dialogue: 21st Century Strategies for the Future
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By Mary Nyangweso, Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha
April 30, 2026
This book considers how people of African descent can generate policies and ideas for the twenty-first century that are embedded in the ideals of Pan-Africanism. For decades, Pan-Africanism has championed an intellectual ideal that recognizes the unity of people of African descent in their efforts ...
Social Power and Politics in Africa: Magic, Religion, State, Democracy
1st Edition
By Jean-Germain Gros
April 15, 2026
This book investigates the ways in which forms of social power such as magic, religion, the state and democracy, coexist in Africa, coming together in cooperative and sometimes conflictual ways to form the essence of politics. Contrary to some assumptions, the book argues that magic and religion ...