Africa Now!: Emerging Issues and Alternative Perspectives

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This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative frameworks that will not just be participatory in conception and practice, but equally show a contextual workability for the varying aspects of the developmental enterprise in Africa. Despite having alternative and less cumbersome sources of funding, with commendable economic growth indices, and several economies among the fastest growing globally, African countries have been unable to transmute related opportunities into sustainable human development outcomes for majority of its citizenry.
Over four rich sections the authors cover subjects ranging from environment and natural resource management, to governance, economy and sustainable development. The book continues with a section on Education and Human Development and a case study in transnationalism. The final section discusses crime, conflict and regional dynamics, including highly disputed topics such as forced migration and sex trade.
This indispensable resource will be of great use to students and researches globally in fields such as sociology, anthropology, environmental studies, politics and economics with a focus on contemporary Africa, as well as to policy planners and human rights activists invested in the future development of Africa.
This book presents relevant and timely endogenous procedures for addressing the challenge of transforming ideas into sustainable opportunities in Africa. It explores how Africa could be understood in the context of emerging global realities, providing alternative frameworks that will not just be ...

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Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran holds a PhD in Development Sociology. He is presently a senior lecturer and researcher at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and a Visiting Researcher at York University, Canada and The Nordic African Institute in Sweden.

Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He obtained his PhD degree in Sociology and Anthropology specializing in the areas of criminology, migration and urbanization from the same university.

Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran holds a PhD in Development Sociology. He is presently a senior lecturer and researcher at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and a Visiting Researcher at York University, Canada and The Nordic African Institute in Sweden. Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo is a lecturer and resear...

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