Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project MUSE, viewed January 8, 2018)

Note: Literaturangaben , Part I. Theoretical Perspectives , Black Holes in the Global Digital Landscape : The Fuelling of Human Trafficking on the African Continent&hby Mirjam Van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Mia Stokmans, Primrose Nakazibwe, Gertjan Van Stam & Antony Otieno Ong’ayo , Network Gatekeepers in Human Trafficking : Profiting from the Misery of Eritreans in the Digital Era , Bound Together in the Digital Era : Poverty, Migration and Human Trafficking , Tortured on Camera : The Use of ICTs in Trafficking for Ransom , Part II. Traumatising Trajectories , ‘Sons of Isaias’ : Slavery and Indefinite National Service in Eritrea , Journeys of Youth in Digital Africa : Pulled by Connectivity , Not a People’s Peace : Eritrean Refugees Fleeing from the Horn of African to Kenya , Israel’s ‘Voluntary’ Return Policy to Expel Refugees : The Illusion of Choice , The Plight of Refugees in Agadez in Niger : From Crossroad to Dead End , Lawless Libya : Unprotected Refugees Kept Powerless and Silent , The Voices of African Migrants in Europe : Isaka’s Resilience , Desperate Journeys : The Need for Trauma Support for Refugees , Identifying Survivors of Torture : “I Never Told What Happened to Me in the Sinai” , Part III. Psychological Impact of Ongoing Trauma , Refugee Parenting in Ethiopia and the Netherlands : Being an Eritrean Parent Outside the Country , Journeys of Trust and Hope : Unaccompanied Minors from Eritrea in Ethiopia and the Netherlands , Refugees’ Right to Family Unity in Belgium and the Netherlands : ‘Life is Nothing without Family’ , Part IV. Problem Framing , The Representation of Human Trafficking in Documentaries : Vulnerable Victims and Shadowy Villains , Language Dominance in the Framing of Problems and Solutions : The Language of Mobility , Part V. Extra-territorialisation of Migration and International Responsibilities , The Shaping of the EU’s Migration Policy : The Tragedy of Lampedusa as a Turning Point , Sudan and the EU : Uneasy Bedfellows , Uncomfortable Aid : INGOs in Eritrea , Complicity in Torture : The Accountability of the EU for Human Rights Abuses against Refugees and Migrants in Libya , Playing Cat and Mouse : How Europe Evades Responsibility for its Role in Human Rights Abuses against Migrants and Refugees

Note: This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital - indigenous knowledge in particular - has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent