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An examination of the 2010 state of political & economic affairs in Africa begins with an overview of developments on the continent. Attention is then given to the domestic political situations in several key countries and regions: South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Republic of Guinea, & Cote d'Ivoire, the Maghreb, & the Horn of Africa. The African Union is next discussed, highlighting international legal issues & maritime security. D. Edelman

The Human Path across Africa -- By Camel through the Sahara -- Sail down the Nile River -- Across Ethiopia by rail -- Trucking in Kenya -- Barge along the Congo River -- Walking for water in Malawi -- Bush Plane over Botswana -- South Africa's Famous Blue Train -- Rickshaw ride in Nigeria -- Shipping out of the Ivory Coast -- Drive the Trans-African Highway -- Bush Taxi around Mauritania

This article makes historical sense of the recent signs of the metamorphosis of nationalism into nativism in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The central thesis of the article is that the resurgence of Afro-radicalism and nativism in post-settler and post-apartheid societies partly reflected deep-rooted antinomies of black liberation thought and partly current ideological conundrums linked to the limits of both the African national project and global liberal democracy. Dismissals and sententious approaches towards nativism do not help in understanding the current issues in Zimbabwe and South Africa. There is the need to revisit the issues of imaginings of the African liberation agenda together with issues of the resolution of the national question, teleology of the liberation, ownership of strategic resources, knowledge production, control of public discourse, imaginations of the nation and visions of citizenship and democracy. Making sense of nativism provides an oblique entry into an interrogation of the current status of the African national project in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword B -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- European Imperialism -- 2.1. European Colonization of Africa -- 2.2. Europe in the 19th Century -- 2.3. Reasons for European Colonization -- 2.4. Partition of the African Continent -- 2.4.1. Portuguese Empire -- 2.4.2. French Empire -- 2.4.3. British Empire -- 2.4.4. Belgian Empire -- 2.4.5. German Empire -- 2.4.6. Italian Empire -- 2.5. Decolonization of Africa -- 2.5.1. West Africa -- 2.5.2. East Africa -- 2.5.3. After the Second World War -- Institutionalization of Historical Experiences in Africa -- 3.1. Development of Bilateral Security Structures -- 3.1.1. China's Presence in Africa -- 3.1.1.1. China and South Africa -- 3.1.1.2. China and Sierra Leone -- 3.1.1.3. China and Zimbabwe -- 3.1.1.4. China and Sudan -- 3.1.1.5. China and Djibouti -- 3.2. Development of Multilateral Security Structures -- 3.3. The Concept of Cooperative Security -- 3.4. Regional Security Organizations in Africa -- 3.4.1. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- 3.4.2. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) -- 3.4.3. Southern African Development Security (SADC) -- 3.4.4. Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) -- 3.4.5. East African Community (EAC) -- 3.5. The Concept of Collective Security and Defence -- 3.5.1. The Organization of African Unity -- 3.5.2. The African Union -- 3.5.2.1. The Vision of the AU -- 3.5.3. Organization for Islamic Conference -- 3.5.4. Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative -- 3.5.5. Kimberley Process -- 3.6. Collaborating Security Institutions -- 3.6.1. Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD) -- 3.6.2. Institute for Security Studies (ISS) -- 3.6.3. New Partnership for Africa`s Development -- 3.7. International Organizations -- 3.7.1. United Nations -- 3.7.1.1. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Positive tourism in Africa : resisting Afro-pessimism -- The community-based natural resource management programme in southern Africa : promise or peril? The case of Botswana -- Land reform and the promotion of collaborative community-based ecotourism at Somkhanda game reserve, South Africa -- Understanding the relationships between protected areas, tourism and community livelihoods : a systems thinking approach -- How community-based tourism can survive in turbulent environments : the Mahenye campfire project, Zimbabwe -- The "Afro-positive turn" : undermining Afro-pessimism through Afro-positive digital counter-narratives -- Broadening Uganda's tourism product base through indigenous cultural resource utilisation -- Insight into Africa : wildlife tourism as educational transformation -- Building cultural resilience in community-based tourism : the case of Goo-Moremi, eastern Botswana -- Leveraging tourism in Kenya through indigenous knowledge -- Regional integration : a lever for positive tourism development in Africa? -- Tourism progress in the SADC region : post-colonial era milestones -- Tourism and economic wellbeing in Africa -- The positive interaction between tourism development and human development : evidence from Mauritius -- Tourism governance and organizational infrastructure in the East African community : a baseline analysis -- The contribution of the law to tourism : the case of Mauritius -- Crises, controversies, and the future Terrorism and tourism recovery cases : a study of Tunisia and Egypt -- The trophy hunting controversy : how hunters rationalise their pastime in social media -- Management of a mature destination : Kruger National Park, South Africa -- The future of tourism in Africa : optimism in a changing environment.

Government in West Africa (1968) examines the practical working of modern government and the constitutional history of West Africa. It looks at various political thinkers and their application to the issues of civil government in West Africa; modern constitutional struggles on the continent; and problems associated with different political systems in the region.

Human rights have a deep and tumultuous history that culminates in the age of rights we live in today, but where does Africa's story fit in with this global history? Here, Bonny Ibhawoh maps this story and offers a comprehensive and interpretative history of human rights in Africa. Rather than a tidy narrative of ruthless violators and benevolent protectors, this book reveals a complex account of indigenous African rights traditions embodied in the wisdom of elders and sages; of humanitarians and abolitionists who marshalled arguments about natural rights and human dignity in the cause of anti-slavery; of the conflictual encounters between natives and colonists in the age of Empire and the "civilizing mission"; of nationalists and anti-colonialists who deployed an emergent lexicon of universal human rights to legitimize longstanding struggles for self-determination, and of dictators and dissidents locked in struggles over power in the era of independence and constitutional rights