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AbstractFood security circumstances are improving in every region of the world except in Africa, where they have been progressively worsening. One food security challenge for analysts in the twenty‐first century may be to stop thinking globally and spend more time thinking about Africa, where the largest problems will lie. The discovery that Africa's weak policy performance in the food and farm sector may be in part an outgrowth of its greater ethnic diversity, compounded by political malfunctions that date from a colonial history of externally imposed state formation is an inconvenient one for the economist.

Knappe länderkundliche Informationen zur geographischen Lage, Bevölkerung, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklung. Bericht über die Terrorherrschaft von Macias Nguema, den 1979 erfolgten Militärputsch sowie die anschließende innenpolitische Entwicklung unter Präsident Teodoro Nguema Mbasogo. (DÜI-Fwr)

Examines the circumstances under which party strategies to promote women are established, 1980s; West Germany and Great Britain, chiefly.

Certain extremely successful popular culture contents may convey democratic values that can have an impact on the political views of readers and fans. The differences in the values of Harry Potter fans and average Facebook users using social data about public Facebook activity are examined. Even though currently only a minority share the values that the Harry Potter stories embody, they are still an important segment of society that one might not even be aware of if one only follows the state-controlled media and make up a significant majority of the Hungarian media market. Understanding this culturally constructed fan network is thus academically and socially relevant.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I India -- 1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore -- 2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror -- 3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic Tribe's Community Theatre -- 4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats -- 5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector -- 6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni -- 7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in Performance -- II North America and the Caribbean -- 8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters -- 9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives -- 10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf -- 11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly -- 12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- III Africa -- 13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! -- 14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests.