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Godwin Murunga

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June, 2011 / 208 pages.
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Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
Edited by Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi

In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way.  read more
May, 2010 / 272 pages.
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Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Stefan Andreasson

Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa.   Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems.  read more
April, 2010 / 256 pages.
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A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
Jonathan Lawley

What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster -- revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict and even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown of state and society.  read more
November, 2009 / 256 pages.
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Achieving Sustainable Development through Partnerships
Tim Gray and Amy Stewart
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The politics of water have taken centre stage in global concerns about sustainable development. The Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa investigates a new mode of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people who lack access to safe water and sanitation by 2015.  read more
October, 2009 / 304 pages.
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A District Officer in Uganda at the End of Empire
Patrick Walker

Politics were often turbulent in African countries in the period leading to their independence in the 1950s and beyond. But for Ugandans and the Colonial Administration alike this was a time of hope and optimism -- though fears for the future of the ‘Westminister Model,’ nurtured so carefully by the Colonial Administration, were never absent.  read more
August, 2009 / 240 pages.
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Regulation and Development
Edited by Bonnie Campbell

The continent of Africa is rich in minerals needed by Western economies, but rather than forming the basis for economic growth the mining industry contributes very little to African development Investigating the impact of the 2003 Extractive Industries Review on a number of African countries, the contributors find the root of the problem in the controls imposed on the African countries by the IMF and World Bank.  read more
June, 2009 / 288 pages.
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Contestations on the Embattled Continent
Edited by Joseph Mensah

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November, 2008 / 288 pages.
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Edited by Paul Collier, Catherine Pattillo, and Charles C. Soludo

This book demonstrates that there is sufficient evidence on the Nigerian economy and society to inform many policy issues, and reveals the current problems and policy options that a democratic Nigeria will need to debate and resolve.  read more
May, 2008 / 320 pages.
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Lessons from Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia
Dorina A. Bekoe

This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of the peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola, and Liberia.  read more
April, 2008 / 240 pages.
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