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Note: This is a unique volume in a specific way: the papers in this volume were first presented at the landmark 'The Toyin Falola at 65 Conference' on the theme "African Knowledges and Alternative Futures", held January 29 to 31, 2018, at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria," (Acknowledgements)

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Note: Includes bibliographical references , Introduction: Phases of oppression and resistance , Section A: Reflections and mediation on the African condition ; Emerging African women writing the diaspora , Acts of culture: similarities between Amílcar Cabral's Unity and struggle and Walter Rodney's The groundings with my brothers , Ali Mazrui's analytical penchant for the dialectics: intellectual creativity and the explanatory potency of Mazruiana , Heroes are usually honored: hip hop's revival of Dedan Kimathi , Section B: faces of oppression and resistance ; The lasting cultural impact of the Haitian revolution in the Spanish Caribbean , Emerging trajectories in the Niger Delta struggle , Kabyle resistance & Berber oppression , From gun to guitar: the performance of Tuareg nationalism , Section C: Conflicts and conflict resolution ; African reconstruction (or reinvention) in confederate and neo-colonial landscapes of the twenty-first century , Transcending violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through art , Faith-based and African traditional perspectives in conflict transformation and resolution , African "communal" ritual as tool for conflict transformation , Conclusion

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Part I: The politics of space and patterns of segregation and marginalization ; Understanding the Zongo: processes of scoio-spatial marginalization in Ghana , Analytical views on past and present official and cultural narratives of Asmara , "Urban man in Jos": growth, transiting power and authority in a conflict prone city , The rise, fall, and reemergence of Ponte City , Urban renewal schemes and the plight of internally displaced persons in Nigeria: a study of Oke Ilu-Eri , Issues and challenges in the urban renewal programme of Lagos State , Part II: Everyday claims to space and rights ; Informal citizens? Residents' perceptions of space and place in a South African informal settlement , Human spaces and urban livelihoods: language use in Makoko slum settlement , The unheralded politics of urban spaces in Nigeria: case of city prostitution and precarious livelihood , Conflicts and urban dwellers in Jos: issues in rights to city , Modernizing Makadara Gardens: development and the struggle for urban space in Kenya

Note: Enthält 16 Beiträge , Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Part I: Dimensions and assessments of poverty reduction policies and programs in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Poverty in post-colonial Africa: the legacy of contested perspectives , Scaling up power infrastructure investment in Sub-Saharan Africa for poverty alleviation , The impact of anti-corruption conventions in Sub-Saharan Africa , The besieged continent: interrogating contemporary issues of corruption and poverty in Africa , PEPFAR and preventing HIV transmission: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa , Reflections on the current challenges of poverty reduction in Africa , A critical analysis of poverty reduction strategies in post-colonial Africa , Part II: Problems of good governance and institutional failures in West-Africa ; Weaknesses and failures of poverty reduction policies and programs in Nigeria since 1960 , In the web of neo-liberalism and deepening contradictions? Assessing poverty reform strategies in West Africa since the mid-1980s , An assessment of abuse of the elderly as an aspect of poverty in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria , Reflections on the interface between poverty and food insecurity in Nigeria , An appraisal of poverty reduction program in Bayelsa State of Nigeria: "In-Care of the People" (COPE) , A comparative analysis of incidence of poverty in three urban centers in Ghana from 1945-1990 , Part III: Dimensions of poverty in east and southern Africa ; Landlessness, national politics, and the future of land reforms in Kenya , Extra-version and development in northwestern Ethiopia: the case of the Humera Agricultural Project (1967-1975) , Affirmative action as a theological-pastoral challenge in the south-African democratic context

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Paradigmatic crossroads of the Yoruba Atlantic world / , Mapping and conceptualizing the Yoruba Atlantic / , Encruzilhadas paradigmáticas do mundo Atlântico iorubano / , The Amaros and Agudás: the Afro-Brazilian returnee community in Nigeria in the nineteenth century / , African returnees from Brazil and Cuba in nineteenth-century Lagos / , Antonio Olinto's The water house: creative configurations of Afro-Brazilian return to roots and African culture / , The jaded heritage: Nigeria's Brazilian connection / , Nas encruzilhadas do Atlântico negro: circularidades no culto a exu / , Traditional Yoruba nobility in the African diaspora / , Ajankoro dugbe dugbe: the one who fights fearlessly, clearing everything in his path / , "Araketure faraimorá": iorubanidade no candomblé brasileiro, uma permanente recriação; e o caso exemplar do Ilê Odô Ogê / , O papel dos nagôs (Iorubas) no Movimento Negro no Brasil / , From The fetish animism of Blacks from Bahia to the plasticity of Yoruba arts / , Um lance de búzios jamais abolirá o acaso / , Affirming Yoruba ancestry through Afro-Brazilian literature / , The contested Candomblé cult matriarchate / , As vivências do candomblé na poesia ancestral de Oliveira Silveira / , Do Animismo fetichista dos negros baianos à plasticidade de arte iorubá / , The politics of race and education in Brazil: an African diaspora perspective / , Articles in English and Portuguese

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Note: "This volume is the product of the 2011 Africa Conference at the University of Texas, the theme of which was Africa and World Politics"--Introduction , Includes bibliographical references and index , Ideologies of development in French Algeria : Saint-Simonians, manifest destiny and globalization , Islam and the politics of assimilation in French colonial Algeria , Theorizing conflict and conflict resolution in African philosophical discourse , The emergent church in Africa and the phenomenon of reverse missions , Africa's unheralded contributions to world politics , Failed state or political inspiration? , A parallel evolution : the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, 1968-1994 , Ensuring that Africa's voice is heard in international forums in the future : the language issues involved , Strongmen and strategists : perspectivising models of conflict resolution in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart and Anthills of the savannah , Antjie Krog's Country of my skull, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the new South Africa , Evangelism as political protest in nineteenth century African diaspora : appraising Julia Foote's spiritual autobiography, A brand plucked from the fire , The politics of gender roles : a comparative analysis of female husbands, male daughters and sworn virgins among the Igbo of West Africa, the Nandi and Kikuyu of East Africa, and the Gheg of north Albania , African and African-Brazilian family and kinship in nineteenth-century Brazil , A global education : Cold War networks, imperial angst and the development of Tanzanian schools, 1960-1970 , Race and social islands in Kenya's urban social spaces , Zoot suiters and sapeurs : the politics of dress in the World War II era , Democratizing traditional rulership and the question of women traditional rulers : a comparison of Nigeria and South Africa

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction , Introduction , Chapter 1. Pan African theory's impact on the development of Afrocentric education in Jamaica , Chapter 2. "Africa, the land of our fathers": the emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the nineteenth century , Chapter 3. Liberia after creation: whither the pan-Africanist dream , Chapter 4. Pan-Africanism and slave rebellions: the interconnections , Part 2. Pan-African citizenship, identity and entitlements: the place of pan-Africanism in reverse diaspora migrations ; Chapter 5. The global implications of pan Africanism and the establishment of "new communities" in Africa: the case of Victoria in southwest Cameroon , Chapter 6. "Performance" in trans-Atlantic communities in Africa: the case of Brazilian-Africans and American-Africans in Ghana , Chapter 7. Mobilizing the African diaspora for development: the politics of dual citizenship in Ghana , Chapter 8. Citizens and strangers in the virgin forest together?: migrations and cross-cultural encounters in the oral histories of Sefwi Debiso community of western Ghana , Part 3. Re-evaluating pan-Africanism, the challenges in the past and the way forward ; Chapter 9. Nationality and the pan-African state , Chapter 10. Critical departures in the practice of pan-Africanism in the new millennium , Chapter 11. Pan-Africanism and the place of Africa in contemporary world power politics , Chapter 12. The spirit of pan-Africanism and nationalist consciousness: the way forward in the 21st century , Chapter 13. Pan-Africanism in world politics: the geopolitics of the pan-African movement, 1900-2000 , Part 1. Historicizing pan-Africanism and the contradictions ; Chapter 1. Pan African theory's impact on the development of Afrocentric education in Jamaica , Chapter 2. "Africa, the land of our fathers": the emigration of Charlestonians to Liberia in the nineteenth century , Chapter 3. Liberia after creation: whither the pan-Africanist dream , Chapter 4. Pan-Africanism and slave rebellions: the interconnections , Part 2. Pan-African citizenship, identity and entitlements: the place of pan-Africanism in reverse diaspora migrations ; Chapter 5. The global implications of pan Africanism and the establishment of "new communities" in Africa: the case of Victoria in southwest Cameroon , Chapter 6. "Performance" in trans-Atlantic communities in Africa: the case of Brazilian-Africans and American-Africans in Ghana , Chapter 7. Mobilizing the African diaspora for development: the politics of dual citizenship in Ghana , Chapter 8. Citizens and strangers in the virgin forest together?: migrations and cross-cultural encounters in the oral histories of Sefwi Debiso community of western Ghana , Part 3. Re-evaluating pan-Africanism, the challenges in the past and the way forward ; Chapter 9. Nationality and the pan-African state , Chapter 10. Critical departures in the practice of pan-Africanism in the new millennium , Chapter 11. Pan-Africanism and the place of Africa in contemporary world power politics , Chapter 12. The spirit of pan-Africanism and nationalist consciousness: the way forward in the 21st century , Chapter 13. Pan-Africanism in world politics: the geopolitics of the pan-African movement, 1900-2000

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Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , AcknowledgementsForeword -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Gender equality in MENA : the facts and the puzzle -- Impressive achievements in human development -- Little discrimination between girls and boys within the household -- Of the lowest rates of excess female mortality in the world -- Rapid declines in maternal mortality -- More girls in school than in much of the world -- Virtually no gender gaps in enrolment, and reverse gender gaps in university, and math performance -- MENA's performance in human development is largely explained by economic development and wealth -- Some challenges remain -- The puzzle in MENA : why do women participate in such few numbers outside the home? -- Women in the workforce -- Women in business -- Women in politics -- What explains the mena puzzle? -- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- , Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? -- The social contract is no longer sustainable -- , Opening the door to women : policy directions -- A roadmap for reform -- Policies to address the region's challenges -- Closing the remaining gender gaps in human deelopment -- Expanding economic opportunities for women -- Closing gender gaps in voice and agency -- Supporting evidence-based policy making -- References -- Technical annex -- Appendix 1

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