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

Note: Part I. Theoretical Perspectives , Roaming Africa : A Social Analysis of Migration and Resilience , All or Nothing : The Costs of Migration from the Horn of Africa – Evidence from Ethiopia , Why do Foreign Solutions not Work in Africa? : Recognising Alternate Epistemologies , Part II. Living Borders , Continuation of Care across Borders : Providing Health Care for People on the Move in East Africa , Mobility as a Social Process : Conflict Management in the Border Areas of Afar Region , Part III. New Perspectives in Migration , Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire : Are Climate Disasters Fuelling Human Trafficking in Kenya? , Standing in Two Worlds : Mobility and the Connectivity of Diaspora Communities , ‘Europe is not Worth Dying For’ : The Dilemma facing Somalis in Europe , Countering Radicalisation in Communities : The Case of Pumwani, Nairobi , Part IV. Livelihoods , Moving on to Make a Living : The Secondary Migration of Eritrean Refugees in Tigray, Ethiopia , Inhospitable Realities : Refugees’ Livelihoods in Hitsats, Ethiopia , Young and On their Own : The Protection of Eritrean Refugee Children in Tigray, Ethiopia , Part V. The Challenges of Return Migration , Home, but not Home : Reintegration of Ethiopian Women Returning from the Arabian Gulf , Shattered Dreams : Life after Deportation for Ethiopian Returnees from Saudi Arabia , Life after the Lord’s Resistance Army : Support for Formerly Abducted Girls in Northern Uganda , Part VI. Social Protection , Is Trauma Counselling the Missing Link? Enhancing Socio-Economic Resilience among Post-war IDPs in Northern Uganda , Roaming Lifestyles : Designing Social Protection for the Pastoralist Afar in Ethiopia , Where is your Brother? Religious Leaders in Eritrea Offer a Counter Narrative to Totalitarianism , Part VII. Defining Responsibilities at the National Level , Peace, but no Progress : Eritrea, an Unconstitutional State , Moving Through the Policy Window : Women in Constitution Making in Kenya , Where are the Youth? The Missing Agenda in Somalia’s Constitution