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Issues in African political economies / edited by Toyin Falola, Jamaine Abidogun.

Lippincott Library HC800 .I8844 2017
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English
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Physical Description:
xxi, 402 pages ; 26 cm.
Place of Publication:
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]
Contents:
  • Introduction / Toyin Falola and Jamaine Abidogun
  • Section I: The political in the economy
  • "Somalia's terrorist Shabaab": the global political economy of impoverishment and disempowerment / Amentahru Wahlrab
  • "To serve the nation": Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa and the development of Tanzania / Charles Thomas
  • Analysis of election finances in Nigeria (1999-2011) / Eyum Ode and Babatunde Ojedokun
  • State and political participation: a gender analysis of Nigeria's 2011 general elections / Lai Olurode
  • Historical epochs of local government administration in Nigeria: women and the poor / Fatai A. Olasupo and Ikeoluwapo O. Fayomi
  • Section II: Risk analysis and security measures
  • Poverty, underdevelopment, and small and light weight weapons (SALWS) proliferation in Nigeria: implications for national security / Hauwa'u Yusuf, Cosmos Eze, and Adedayo A. Yusufu
  • Modern day slavery: poverty and women trafficking in Nigeria in the age of neo-liberal orthodoxy / Ronke I. Ako-Nai and Iwebunor Okwechime
  • Political corruption and development in Africa: the case of South Africa / Kudzai Goto and Olusola Ogunnubi
  • Combating corruption in Nigeria: a securitization approach / Olabanji Akinola
  • Section III: Views on resource capital and development
  • Escaping the resource curse: ethnic inclusion in resource-rich states in West Africa / Manuel Vogt
  • Poverty in an oil rich country: the Nigerian situation / Zuhumman G. Dapel
  • Safeguarding the rights of oil producing communities in Nigeria: a call for review / Kevwe M. Omoragbon
  • Politics of foreign financing and development in Zambia: Zambia's negotiating capacity amidst the east-west rivalry / Ben Weiss
  • Age of owner and performance in rural non-farm enterprises in Nigeria: implications for rural employment and poverty / Fayomi A. Olugbenga
  • Section IV: Wealth of the nations: African voices in reflection
  • Poverty as empowerment: Don Mattera's Sophiatown: coming of age in South Africa / Michael Sharp
  • Radicalized oathing in the Mau Mau and Mungiki movements in Kenya, 1952-present / Mickie M. Koster
  • Gendered poverty in Africa: implications for career emancipation of women / Bridget I. Awosika
  • Colonial socio-economic developments and poverty in the Niger Delta / Frank O. Amugo and C. Izeoma Chinda
  • Post-colonial West African railroads: state management, infrastructural decay, and privatization / Tokunbo Ayoola.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781611638790
  • 1611638798
OCLC:
964298504

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