Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World examines the connections between the literatures and cultures of South Africa and Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa, Portugal, and Brazil.
This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of "rights" and "power" to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future.
The book provides the readers a deeper understanding on how the conflict management mechanisms adopted in pastoralist-farmer conflict affect the protection of internally displaced persons in Benue and Nasarawa states.
Legacies of Passed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female writers of contemporary African literature and feminist scholarship, examining the ideologies, thematic concerns, and stylistic devices which constitute the fabrics of the legacies left by these iconic pacesetters.
Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature--and ideas we have about it--can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first ......
This book provides a detailed analysis of the process of political party financing in Nigeria from 1999 to the present. Babayo Sule links the party financing process with the electoral process and explores issues of democratic accountability, transparency, and corruption in Nigeria under democratic rule.
This book provides an examination of insurgent movements and terrorist organizations, as well as state policies that instigate intrastate conflicts in African states. It examines the tactics used by anti-government forces, states' counterterrorism responses, and the human security impacts of insecurity on citizens in Africa.
Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization
This book argues that for democratization and integration to be consolidated and institutionalized, direct involvement of the people of Southern Africa is paramount. More specifically, democratization and integration are about people, the sovereigns, and not merely the abstract actors called nation states.
