Africa now! : emerging issues and alternative perspectives /: emerging issues and alternative perspectives. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adebusuyi Adeniran, Lanre Ikuteyijo.
• Editors: Adeniran, Adebusuyi Isaac; Ikuteyijo, Lanre
• Contents: Forward.- Acknowledgments.- About the Authors.- 1. Introduction: Africa in the 21st Century; Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo.- Section i: Conceptualizing the development process in 21st century Africa.- 2. The right to development in a reconfigured global order: conceptual dynamism and south-south cooperation; Stacey Links.- Section ii: Environment, natural resources' management and development.- 3. Oil, ethnicism and sustainable national integration in Nigeria; Abosede Omowumi Babatunde.- 4. Phenomenological study of development outcomes of governance of extractive sector in Cote D'Ivoire; Kabran Aristide Djane.- 5. Land degradation and sustainable human development in Nigeria; Adetayo Tolulope Fajobi.- 6. Land, natural resources and the state in Kenya; Connor J. Cavanagh.- Section iii: Governance, economy and sustainable development.- 7. Urban agriculture (ua), food security and poverty alleviation in post-apartheid metropolitan Durban, South Africa; Sultan Khan.- 8. Internal democracy and leadership crisis in the nigerian legislature; Taofeek Oluwayomi Gidado.- 9. Exploring inherent social interactions between Chinese immigrants and corruption in Nigeria; Allen Hai Xiao.- 10. Emerging governance crises in 21st century Nigeria; Samuel S. Agunyai.- Section iv: Transnationalism, education and human development.- 11. Migration of nigerians to canada for undergraduate education: implications for brain drain and development; Charles T. Adeyanju.- 12. Imperialism and African indigenous knowledge system in technology; Kolawole T. Olabode.- Section v: crime, conflicts and regional dynamics.- 13. North africa: can common security challenges promote regional integration?; Rawia Tawfik.- 14. Ethnography of sex trade among bini-women in southern Nigeria; Clementina O. Osezua.- 15. Crime and human security: South Africa twenty one years post democracy; Shanta B. Singh.- 16. Environmental conflicts and forced migration in the Nigerian Niger delta; Iwebunor Okwechime.- 17. Informal immigrant traders in Johannesburg: the scorned cornerstone in the sadc integration project; Christopher Ushimbi and Inocent Moyo.- 18. Emergent dynamics of female migration in west Africa; Timothy Abayomi Atoyebi.- 19. Conclusion; Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo.- Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 960.33; Economic development -- Africa -- History -- 21st century; Africa -- Civilization -- 21st century; Africa -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319624433
• Related ISBNs: 9783319624426
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