Routledge Contemporary Africa
African Understandings of Chinese Involvement: Power, Practices, and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Sabella O. Abidde, Dramane G. Thiombiano
March 31, 2026
This book brings together leading African scholars to consider China’s impact on Africa’s political, economic, cultural, environmental, and social spaces. China’s power and influence on the African continent have increased exponentially in recent decades, providing a range of political and economic...
Nigeria's Street Children: Lives and Dreams
1st Edition
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By David V. Ogunkan
February 20, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives, challenges, and aspirations of street children across different regions of Nigeria. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines and research methods, including extensive fieldwork and interviews as well as quantitative analysis, the book...
Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts: The Agency of the Extracted
1st Edition
By Spring Ulmer
February 18, 2026
This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. Reminding us that we are all part of an interdependent collective, this book challenges us to act to reverse the extractivist ...
Political Ecology of African Peace Parks
1st Edition
By Maano Ramutsindela
November 06, 2025
Peace parks are imagined landscapes and seascapes created through narratives and science. This book uses a political ecology framework to explore the colonial and uneven geography of peace parks in post-independence Africa. It illuminates the regional milieus impacting these parks and the ...
The Civilian Joint Task Force in Nigeria: Counterterrorism from Below
1st Edition
By J. Tochukwu Omenma, Cheryl Hendricks
October 14, 2025
This book highlights the role of local non-state security actors in the fight against Boko Haram in Nigeria. The book examines the Civilian-JTF’s operational, strategic and tactical engagement with the state security forces as well as how they counter insurgent groups at community levels. The ...
Youth Employment Programmes in Africa
1st Edition
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By Ramos E. Mabugu, Lucas Ronconi
October 03, 2025
This book investigates youth employment programmes across nine African countries, providing important insights into the world’s youngest continent by population, in which 60% of people are aged under 25. By 2050, the labour force in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to be almost double the size of the...
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa: Life Goes On
1st Edition
By Cuthbeth Tagwirei
September 26, 2025
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and inequality persist. The book argues that apartheid, which ...
Civil Society in Zimbabwe: Insights from Matabeleland
1st Edition
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By Mandlenkosi Mpofu, Dion Nkomo, Kirk Helliker
September 02, 2025
This book considers the historical and spatial dimensions of civil society in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland region, an area suffering from severe development and democratic deficits over many decades. Transcending an organisational conception of civil society and a simplistic state-civil society dualist ...
Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality
1st Edition
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By John Sodiq Sanni, Madalitso Zililo Phiri
July 31, 2025
This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a ...
African Women and Intellectual Leadership: Life Stories from Western Kenya
1st Edition
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By Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi, Emily Achieng’ Akuno, Humphrey J. Ojwang, Dannica Fleuss
June 27, 2025
This book highlights the pioneering roles of African women as leaders and role models in Kenya, providing examples taken from across education, health, business, and a range of other sectors. Drawing on authentic first-hand accounts and narratives from key women in leadership positions, and those ...
Legalization of Human Rights in Africa: The Institutionalization of Laws Prohibiting State-Sanctioned Violence and Torture
1st Edition
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By Stacey M. Mitchell, Veraline Nchotu, Lem Lilian Atanga
June 02, 2025
Most countries on the African continent have ratified or acceded to several human rights treaties, including the Torture Convention and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights. This book assesses the progress African countries have made in institutionalizing human rights laws prohibiting ...
African Constructions of China: Insights from Ghana and Kenya
1st Edition
By Kwaku Opoku Dankwah
May 06, 2025
Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China. Using Ghana and Kenya as case studies, the book outlines the role of diverse state and non-state actors in defining what China represents to the region, and how it compares to Western ...