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Producing nature and poverty in Africa

Medarbetare: Broch-Due, Vigdis | Schroeder, Richard A.
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2000
Ämnesord: natural resources, poverty, Environmental management, Colonial and postcolonial interventions, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Development donors have supported thousands of environmental initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess these projects and conclude that environmental programmes constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study material from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that environmental programmes themselves often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty on the continent. Individual essays in the collection theorise specific forms of environmental intervention; the degree of historical discontinuity that exists between contemporary and past environmental policies and practices; the effect environmental programmes have had on localised systems of knowledge and value regimes; the strategies of accumulation that have been spun out of heavy donor and state investment in environmental programmes; and the numerous social, cultural and political-economic dislocations these initiatives have produced in African environments all across the continent.

Literature searching

Upphovsperson: Andersson, Marianne
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2011
Ämnesord: Bibliographies, Information resources, Journal indexes, Databases, Webb archives, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Contents: Bibliographic overviews -- Current bibliographies -- Literature published in Africa -- Searching for literature on the Internet -- Africa -specific databases -- Library databases -- Subject databases -- Digital archives and web portals -- Searching for journal articles

Associational life in African cities : popular responses to the urban crisis

Medarbetare: Tostensen, Arne | Tvedten, Inge | Vaa, Mariken
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2001
Ämnesord: African cities, Urban Crisis, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and services, and more generally, weak and abdicating urban governments. Some associations are new, in other cases existing organisations are taking on new tasks. Associations may be neighbourhood-based, others may be city-wide and based on professional groupings or a shared ideology or religion. Still others have an ethnic base.

African voices, African visions

Medarbetare: Adesida, Olugbenga | Oteh, Arunma
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2004
Ämnesord: Democratisation, economic development, Globalisation, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Does Africa have a future? What are the visions, hopes, ambitions and fears of young Africans for the future of the world, the continent, their nation, and their communities? How do they envisage this world and their roles within it? These issues have not previously been explored collectively by Africans because of the enormous challenges and the preoccupation with the present. But Africa must not allow the enormity of the problems to blind it to its past and future. Africa must chart its own vision of a desirable future and therefore young Africans, born just before or after independence, were challenged to reflect on the future of the continent. Many responded to the challenge, which has resulted in this volume containing a number of the contributions. In this book, the voices of a new generation of Africa are heard exploring the future from personal and diverse perspectives. The authors have enumerated the ills of Africa, analyzed the problems and explored the opportunities. Remarkably, despite the daunting nature of the challenges, they were all hopeful about the future. They provided their visions of the future, suggested numerous ideas on how to build a new Africa, and implored Africans to take responsibility for the transformation of the continent. Given the current emphasis on African renaissance and union, the ideas presented here could become the basis for a truly shared vision for the continent.

The Struggle to Convert Nationalism to Pan-Africanism: Taking Stock of 50 years of African Independence

Upphovsperson: Shivji, Issa
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala, Sweden
År: 2011
Ämnesord: keynote lecture, ECAS 4, European conference on African Studies, , SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Keynote speech held during the opening of the Conference ECAS 4, Uppsala, Sweden, 15-18 June 2011.Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, delivered the first keynote lecture entitled “The Struggle to Convert Nationalism to Pan-Africanism: Taking Stock of 50 years of African Independence”. Issa Shivji argues that the narrative of Pan-Africanism as to be located within the narrative of worldwide capitalist accumulation during the last five centuries of Africa’s encounter with Europe.The film's length: 64 min.

Eritrea and Ethiopia : the federal experience

Upphovsperson: Negash, Tekeste
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1997
Ämnesord: Ethiopia, Eritrea, East Africa, National liberation movements, Political parties, Political power, State, Civil war, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book examines the rise and fall of the Ethio-Eritrean federation which existed from 1952 to 1962. The author argues that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN imposed federation and its constitution was doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of power. ... a book on a subject on which very little authentic material is otherwise available. [...] On the whole, the book is extremely well written with remarkable clarity of language. (Africa Quarterly, No. 1/1998.)

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