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A timely exploration of the world's most rapidly urbanizing region The Urban Question in Africa explores the uneven and contested nature of the urban transition on the continent, offering fresh insights into the implications of climate crisis, geopolitical changes, and other contemporary meta-trends. Addressing Africa's urbanization as well as its broader development, the authors present an original framework that points towards more generativ...

A timely exploration of the world's most rapidly urbanizing region The Urban Question in Africa explores the uneven and contested nature of the urban transition on the continent, offering fresh insights into the implications of climate crisis, geopolitical changes, and other contemporary meta-trends. Addressing Africa's urbanization as well as its broader development, the authors present an original framework that points towards more generativ...

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Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South.

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Explores the evolving nature and impact of globalization throughout Africa, as China, the US, and other economic powers exert their influence. Drawing especially on the cases of Chad, Sudan, and Zambia, it considers whether the resource curse that has for so long plagued Africa can become a blessing. It also evaluates the impact of the information technology revolution and the recent global economic slowdown.

As the second most industrially developed economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank officials argued that Zimbabwe could be the first African country to succeed with economic liberalization. However, the experience of structural adjustment was disastrous.

Examines the geopolitics behind Africa's rapidly growing economy.

The first book to be written about the BRICS as a collective phenomenon, and the impact their involvement in Africa has upon their geo-political strategies.

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the continent has also expanded. But a new scramble for resources, markets and territory is now taking place in Africa involving not just state, but non state-actors, including Islamic fundamentalist...

2nd edition.