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Introduction /Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi --Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos /Adebisi Alade --Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity /Nick T. C. Lu --Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of Africa? A Post-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions /Biko Agozino --Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach /Fouad Mami --Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-Development Paradigms /Nathan Moyo and Jairos Gonye --Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa's Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Colonial Africa /Mike Odey --Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Post-Colonial Africa Alternative Development Initiatives and the Contentions /Victor I. Ogharanduku --Challenging the "Colonial Development Model": The Quest for an Indigenous African Model in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood /Solomon Awuzie --Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa /Matthew D. Ogali --Women, Resistance Movements and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria /Moses J. Yakubu and Olusegun Adeyeri --African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization /John Ebute Agaba and Emmanuel S. Okla --Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa /Olayinka Akanle and Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo --Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry /Fred Ekpe Ayokhai --Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Post-Colonial Nigeria /Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen.

"This book addresses the divergent development challenges of contemporary unsustainable food consumption. It also examines food politics and provides alternative development trajectories that could be useful in understanding the development realities of unsustainable food consumption"--Provided by publisher.

The return to democracy in Nigeria in 1999 ushered in some form of political reforms, particularly in the conduct of multi- party elections however political violence appears perverse. The objective of this study is to explore how the prevalence of political violence has undermined Nigeria's democracy. The analysis follows survey data to address the questions regarding democracy and political violence. The study draws from the frustration-aggression and group violence theories and provides a deepened analytic exploration. Based on some of the assumptions of democracy understood as freedom, equality, accountability, rule of law etc, the study argues that these assumptions obviously constitute a 'universal pattern' in democratic practice, which makes a critical evaluation of the Nigerian experience important. Consequently, our findings suggest that the prevalence of political violence is fundamentally an attribute of vested interests of the political elite. Some policy recommendations follow.

Paul Collier argues that, "Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them"1. This line of debate has been more fashionable in understanding the growing deleterious effects of environmental use currently riddled with inequality. The essay builds on seminal studies such as UNEP 2012 post Rio environmental reports, TRUCOST,(2008,2013)an independent environmental survey which provided an analysis of global cost of damage on the environment by the business sector. The aim is to create possible linkages between environmental consumption and sustainability. This strand forms an offshoot of the "unsustainability" thesis where core development issues such as green economy, eco- efficiency, ecological footprints, dematerialism etc, are marginalised by the high income countries. In an increasingly globalizing world, eco-efficiency, emphasizes creating more goods and services with ever less use of resources, waste and pollution. This paper sets to interrogate the post Rio+20 Summit and the extent of global operationalization of eco-efficiency among corporate organizations. It explores certain theoretical evidence on production and consumption dynamics of multinationals in the high income countries using the political ecology tools of analysis. Findings suggest evidence of prevailing global unsustainable environmental use which taints green economy, eco efficiency and sustainable development. It recommends that lack of policy implementation in this direction poses greater challenges to sustainable development.

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This briefing revisits the dynamics of post-civil-war agitation for a separate state arising from Nigerian state repression in Africa's largest democracy. It analyses uncertainties among many Nigerians in the south-east of the country and focuses on the recent experience of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group agitating for a republic of Biafra. It argues for a more democratic order that legitimises equality and social justice as organising principles of democracy.

Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy engages with public policy and its intersection with contemporary discourse on sexuality and rights, and by extension the inclusion or exclusion of groups of individuals in mainstream sociocultural groups in societies.

Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocates for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the contributors identify and analyze the effects of global inequality, racism, white supremacy, crisis, climate change, increasing environmental insecurity, underdevelopment, chronic diseases, and the vulnerability of the postcolonial societies of the global South. Together, the collection calls for and theorizes a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives

This book evaluates indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa. It proposes a set of mechanisms by which the best elements of indigenous knowledge and skills in conflict management may be deployed to settle contemporary disputes and made portable for adoption and adaptation by other complex societies in the region and beyond.