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Culture in Africa : an appeal for pluralism

Medarbetare: Granqvist, Raoul
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1993
Ämnesord: Africa, Communication, Culture, Literature, Folk culture, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The essays in this publication range from poetry and drama to church music, architecture, and popular magazines. Common to them is the effort to make the disciplines of arts and those of social sciences meet. African cultural expressions are treated here as anchored in the experiences common to the people of Africa, while the provincial exclusiveness of Afrocentrism is shunned.

Organising the farmers : cocoa politics and national development in Ghana

Upphovsperson: Beckman, Björn
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1976
Ämnesord: Ghana, West Africa, History, Post war, Farmers, Cocoa, Farmers' associations, Development policy, National plans, Political science, Statsvetenskap
The United Ghana Farmers' Council was the farmers' wing of the Convention People's Party, which, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence for Ghana in 1957. The Farmers' Council was dissolved and banned in 1966, together with other CPP organisations, after a military coup had overthrown the Nkrumah government. This book is primarly about the Farmers' Council and its functions in the political and economic system established by the CPP.

Fishing for development : small-scale fisheries in Africa

Medarbetare: Tvedten, Inge | Hersoug, Bjørn
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1992
Ämnesord: Africa, Fishery, Fishery development, Fishermen, Small-scale fishery, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Small-scale or artisanal fishery is a neglected sector in research on African development, despite the fact that fishery is a vital source of protein and income for a large number of people and an important source of revenue for governments. In this volume research on artisanal fisheries has been pooled together in general themes and contributions based on research from Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Tanzania and West Africa.

Structural adjustment and socio-economic change in Sub-Saharan Africa : some conceptual, methodological and research issues

Upphovspersoner: Gibbon, Peter | Olukoshi, Adebayo O.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Tanzania, Kenya, East Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa, Non-governmental organizations, Economic policy, Economic reform, Agriculture, Labour, Health, Political participation, Informal sector, Social change, Structural adjustment, Economic conditions, Business and economics, Ekonomi
The African-based authors of this volume provide a series of objective, detailed, factually up-to-date, and theoretically informed studies of reent developments in agriculture, the informal sector, the social sector and 'civil society' in Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They analyse the main trends and forces operating in these fields and consider the economic reform programme's impact against this background.

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