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  • Poems for a Century

    An Anthology on Nigeria

    by Tope Omoniyi, Tope Omoniyi, Kole Ade-Odutola, Toyin Adewale-Gabriel, Richard Ali, Ifi Amadiume, Afam Akeh, Tade Akin Aina0, Peter Akinlabi1, Funso Aiyejina2, Ismail Bala3, John Pepper Clark4, Omohan Ebhodaghe5, Amatoritsero Ede6, Hope Eghagha7, Ogaga Ifowodo8, Zainabu Jallo9, Adebayo Lamikanra0, Akeem Lasisi1, Okinba Launko2, Chidi Anthony Opara3, Uche Nduka4, Obi Nwakanma5, Cyril Obi6, Olu Oguibe7, Tolu Ogunlesi8, Tanure Ojaide9, Femi Oyebode0, Jekwu Ozoemene1, Remi Raji2, E.E. Sule3, Uzor Maxim Uzoatu4, Olajumoke Verissimo6, Molara Wood (Wood, Molara) [A32] and Prince Abiathar Zadok7 ...
    In 2010, billions of naira were spent to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence since 1960. More naira are to be spent in 2014 to commemorate the centenary marking the nation's birth in 1914 from an amalgamation of diverse group of peoples, languages, cultures and expectations. As the conscience of the nation, writers are calling for a deeper introspection. A hundred years after ... Read more

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  • Terrorism in Africa

    The Evolving Front in the War on Terror

    by John Davis, Abdul Karim Bangura, Mohamed A. El-Khawas, Ben K. Fred-Mensah, Alem Hailu, Samuel Moki, Cyril I. Obi, Melissa Simpson, Adrian Taylor ...
    The study, Terrorism in Africa: The Evolving Front in the War on Terrorism, represents a research endeavor aimed at increasing scholarly discourse on the ever-expanding threat of terrorism and terrorist-related violence in the region. It offers the most wide-ranging analysis of the sub-national and transnational terrorists groups that have made Africa the second most violent region in the world. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • African Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Urban Mobilities and Peacebuilding Trajectories

    Edited by Ibrahim Bangura, Cyril Obi, Irene D Mngutyo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates the lived experiences of Africa’s youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing its impact on their mobilities, freedoms, and livelihoods.Bringing together diverse perspectives from across the continent, the book interrogates how African youth expressed their agency in urban spatial terms during the pandemic, by coping with, adapting, and responding to the deepening ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa

    Edited by Said Adejumobi, Cyril Obi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process.With a focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the contributions explore how regional institutions such as this can be drivers of developmental regionalism. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Revolution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

    Prospects for Environmental Justice and Peace

    Edited by Cyril Obi, Temitope Oriola ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    The 1990s heralded waves of spectacular forms of local resistance and globalized protest against oil exploitation and environmental pollution in oil-producing regions of the developing world. One of the most spectacular local uprisings against global oil multinationals was led by the Ogoni people who were protesting against the exploitation and marginalization of oil-producing ethnic minority ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta

    Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence

    by Ukoha Ukiwo, Babatunde Ahonsi, Rhuks Ako, Engobo Emeseh, Ibaba Samual, Doctor Charles Ukeje, Kayode Soremekun, Morten Bøås, Augustine Ikelegbe, Nils Duquet, Oluwatoyin Oluwaniyi, Anna Zalik, Uwafiokun Idemudia ...
    Series series Africa Now
    The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns.This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Rise of China and India in Africa

    Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions

    by Dot Keet, Kwesi Aning, He Wenping, Fredrick Mutesa, Peter Kragelund, Alex Vines, Sanusha Naidu, Liu Haifang, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Alemayehu Geda, Atnafu G. Meskel, Peter Draper, Tsidiso Disenyana, Renu Modi, Linn Axelsson, Professor Timothy M Shaw ...
    Series series Africa Now
    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. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Regional Economic Communities and Peacebuilding in Africa

    Lessons from ECOWAS and IGAD

    Edited by Victor Adetula, Redie Bereketeab, Cyril Obi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book outlines challenges to the effective operation of regional economic communities (RECs) with regards to peacebuilding in Africa.Critically examining these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on comparative analysis of the status, role, and performances of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), it ... Read more

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    by David Hulme ...
    Series series Global Futures
    In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the ... Read more

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  • The Great Convergence

    Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The twenty-first century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the ... Read more

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  • Gambling on Development

    Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose

    by Stefan Dercon ...
    In the last thirty years, the developing world has undergone tremendous changes. Overall, poverty has fallen, people live longer and healthier lives, and economies have been transformed. And yet many countries have simply missed the boat. Why have some countries prospered, while others have failed? Stefan Dercon argues that the answer lies not in a specific set of policies, but rather in a key ... Read more

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  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

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