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Book cover for Stephen Bass: Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment

Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment : The Politics of Local Engagement

Stephen Bass
Paperback - $70.95

The first book to examine the role of politics in environmental issues that matter to the poor and to advocate progressive ways forward

Book cover for Bjorn Beckman: Intellectuals and African Development

Intellectuals and African Development : Pretension and Resistance in African Politics

Bjorn Beckman
Hardcover - $230.95

This book looks at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi, and Achebe, the military men in power and the students who defy repression. It suggests that intervention by international agencies who clai ...

Book cover for Bjorn Beckman: Intellectuals and African Development

Intellectuals and African Development : Pretension and Resistance in African Politics

Bjorn Beckman
Paperback - $72.95

This book looks at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka, Ngugi, and Achebe, the military men in power and the students who defy repression. It suggests that intervention by international agencies who clai ...

Book cover for Maggie Black: The Last Taboo

The Last Taboo : Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis

Maggie Black
Paperback - $75.95



Book cover for Richard Black: Migration and Development in Africa

Migration and Development in Africa : An Overview

Richard Black
Paperback - $75.95



Book cover for Caroline H. Bledsoe: Contingent Lives

Contingent Lives : Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa

Caroline H. Bledsoe
Paperback - $52.95

Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason-to have as many children as possible.
Using ethnographic ...

Book cover for Okyere Bonna: A New Agenda for Ghana

A New Agenda for Ghana : Building a Nation on Vision and Ideas Volume One

Okyere Bonna
Paperback - $37.95

When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attitudes are overturned will Ghana quit running in circles and move into her future. The neo-colonialist ...

Book cover for Okyere Bonna: A New Agenda for Ghana

A New Agenda for Ghana : Building a Nation on Vision and Ideas Volume One

Okyere Bonna
Hardcover - $58.95

When I speak for Ghana, I speak for Africa. Corruption is endemic in African politics because of a colonial mentality. Only when these inherited attitudes are overturned will Ghana quit running in circles and move into her future. The neo-colonialist ...

Book cover for Erica Bornstein: The Spirit of Development

The Spirit of Development : Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe

Erica Bornstein
Paperback - $52.95

This work is an ethnographic account of the work of transnational, Christian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Zimbabwe. Religious NGOs are one of the voices of pluralism in Southern Africa, sometimes challenging the state and at others collab ...

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