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Women In The Informal Sector And Poverty Reduction In Morocco - The City Of Fez As A Case Study

by Souad Belhorma

69,76€ + 10% CARD

 This book focuses on investigating the contribution of womenâ€™s self-employed work in the informal sector in reducing household poverty in the city of Fez. This is done through the medium of specific framework objectives and identifies the various challenges for the development of their businesses in the city.
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Critical And Creative Education For The New Africa

by Titus Pacho

69,36€ + 10% CARD

 This book is about re-inventing Africa it aims to induct a new cohort of dedicated professionals, guided not by material gains and power, but by personal commitment, in building a better society. It is about an education that develops responsible citizens inspired by the desire to serve their fellow men and women, people who can contribute their time and talents to make society a better place in which to live. Unless people are empowered by an education tailored to address their needs, they cannot be effective participants in bringing about constructive change. An education that prepares Africans to live confidently, as Africans, in todays globalized world is a prerequisite for developing an active and responsible citizenry. The book also examines some of the key critical areas on which African countries need to focus their attention: poverty eradication; combating corruption; peace, security and development; democracy and constitutionalism; good governance; social justice; globalization and empowerment. It criticizes extremes, creates a healthy synthesis of African and Western thought about education particularly education for citizenship and for social transformation an education which concerns itself with human dignity, social equality and respect, rather than fear, for authority.
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Decolonizing Africa And African Development - The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge

by Anthony Victor Obeng

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 The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas SankaraÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice LumumbaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s challenge to them to write their own history.
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The «Tokunbo» Phenomenon And The Second-Hand Economy In Nigeria

by Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale

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 This book investigates the social construction and reconstruction of Tokunbo meanings and how these impact on the second-hand economy in Nigeria. Qualitative data were collected at Abeokuta, Ibadan and Lagos in Nigeria and at Cotonou in Benin Republic. The research confirmed that Tokunbo arose from the contact of the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria with Europeans in the fifteenth century and developed further under colonization by Great Britain. Tokunbo as a given name was reserved for children conceived or born in Western countries. The name conveyed an elitist status on bearers and their families, presenting them as harbingers of Western civilization. Following an economic downturn and the consequent dependence on second-hand imports from the 1990s onward, the values attached to Tokunbo were socially modified and transferred to second-hand imports. From this point on, consumers described these imports in glowing terms, emphasizing their quality compared to «substandard» imports from Asia. The Tokunbo second-hand economy enables access to goods that consumers consider essential for the transmission of modernity through the consumption of Western material culture.
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Rethinking Development Strategies In Africa - The Triple Partnership As An Alternative Approach The Case Of Uganda

by Johnson W. Makoba

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 The author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda. NGOs and MFIs are seen as a third approach (i.e. an alternative to state or market strategies) to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction. The author discusses the following central issues: rethinking development strategies in Africa as a result of the failure of the state or market to deliver economic growth and poverty reduction, and the rise of the NGO sector to fill the vacuum; clarification of the on-going confusion between MFI performance and impact assessment; the inadequacy of economic reforms in Uganda to benefit the rural agricultural producers; NGOs and MFIs in Uganda as part of the development strategy and their potential to spur development; the commercialization of MFIs and its implications; lessons from successful MFIs in Uganda and globally; and an analysis of how NGOs and MFIs working together with the public and private sectors (in a triple partnership) can achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction in Uganda and other African countries.
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The Griqua Past And The Limits Of South African History, 1902-1994

by Edward Cavanagh

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 The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In this revisionist analysis of South African historiography, the author analyses over a century’s worth of historical studies and identifies a number of narrative frameworks that have proven resilient to change over this time. The Griqua, in particular, have fared poorly compared to other peoples. They appear in, and disappear from, this body of work in a number of consistent ways, almost as though scholars have avoided re-imagining their history in ways relevant to the present. This book questions why that might be the case.
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Galileo'S Sidereus Nuncius: A Comparison Of The Proof Copy (New York) With Other Paradigmatic Copies (Vol. I). Needham: Galileo Makes A Book: The Firs

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 Presents the analyses made jointly by a group of paper analysts, materials scientists and book historians from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, the Technische Universitat Berlin, the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, and the Graz University Library.
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Beer Hiking Berlin - The Tastiest Way To Discover Berlin

by Daniel Cole e Yvonne Hartmann

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Women In The Informal Sector And Poverty Reduction In Morocco - The City Of Fez As A Case Study

by Souad Belhorma

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 This book focuses on investigating the contribution of womenâ€™s self-employed work in the informal sector in reducing household poverty in the city of Fez. This is done through the medium of specific framework objectives and identifies the various challenges for the development of their businesses in the city.
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Gender In Practice - Culture, Politics And Society In Sierra Leone

by John Idriss Lahai

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Decolonizing Africa And African Development - The Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanist Challenge

by Anthony Victor Obeng

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 The book is an intellectual and political response to Thomas Sankaraâ€™s challenge to the African people to dare to invent their own future, an echo of Patrice Lumumbaâ€™s challenge to them to write their own history.
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Rethinking Development Strategies In Africa - The Triple Partnership As An Alternative Approach Â€“ The Case Of Uganda

by Johnson W. Makoba

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 Focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized people (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda.
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Time, Space And Order - The Making Of Medieval Salisbury

by Christian Frost

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The Politics Of Language And Nation Building In Zimbabwe

by Finex Ndhlovu

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Do Â€˜Zimbabweansâ€™ Exist? - Trajectories Of Nationalism, National Identity Formation And Crisis In A Postcolonial State

by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

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Confronting The Challenge - Poverty, Gender And Hiv In South Africa

by Suzanne Mulligan

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The Politics Of Senegambian Integration, 1958-1994

by Jeggan C. Senghor

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Samuel Johnson Of Yorubaland, 1846-1901 - Identity, Change And The Making Of The Mission Agent

by Kehinde Olumuyiwa Olabimtan

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 This book aims to understand how the nineteenth century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity, using the example of Samuel Johnson, 1846-1901. Drawing on multiple contexts, the book shows him as embodying the opportunities and the ambivalence of the time in the peopleâ€™s war-weary century of change.
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The Â«Tokunboâ» Phenomenon And The Second-Hand Economy In Nigeria

by Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale

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 This book investigates the social construction and reconstruction of Tokunbo meanings and how these impact on the second-hand economy in Nigeria. The Tokunbo second-hand economy enables access to goods that consumers consider essential for the transmission of modernity through the consumption of Western material culture.
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Critical And Creative Education For The New Africa

by Titus Pacho

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 Examines some of the key critical areas on which African countries need to focus their attention: poverty eradication; combating corruption; peace, security and development; democracy and constitutionalism; good governance; social justice; globalization and empowerment.
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The Griqua Past And The Limits Of South African History, 1902-1994

by Edward Cavanagh

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 The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other people do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative.
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Cooperative Collegial Democracy For Africa And Multi-Ethnic Societies - Democracy Without Tears

by Emefiena Ezeani

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 It is no longer a matter of debate to state that the practice of 'democracy' in different African nations is almost always experienced through violence or something near to it. In this title, the principal question addressed is, 'Why are many African countries finding it difficult to practise democracy without tears?'
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Cooperative Collegial Democracy For Africa And Multi-Ethnic Societies - Democracy Without Tears

by Emefiena Ezeani

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 It is no longer a matter of debate to state that the practice of democracy in different African nations is almost always experienced through violence or something near to it. The principal question addressed by this work is, Why are many African countries finding it difficult to practise democracy without «tears»? Though this unique work recognises a number of factors as contributing to the pitiable democratic experience of many African states, the liberal party model of democracy is identified as a major political obstacle which not only impedes democratisation, but also fails to address significant national questions in plural societies. Instead of acting as an attenuating force, the liberal party system tends to intensify the negative roles of other dependent socio-political variables in instituting and consolidating democracy in multi-ethnic societies. In light of this, this work recommends a cooperative, instead of a competitive method of government formation a Cooperative Collegial Democracy for African societies and any multi-ethnic society. This is a party-less, peaceful and overtly fair political system which is imbued with the qualities needed to resolve national questions and which constrains the incompetent and corrupt from emerging as political leaders, thus ensuring competent leadership and establishing functional and non-destabilising democracies in African or other multi-ethnic states.
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Do Zimbabweans Exist? - Trajectories Of Nationalism, National Identity Formation And Crisis In A Postcolonial State

by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

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 This book examines the triumphs and tribulations of the Zimbabwean national project, providing a radical and critical analysis of the fossilisation of Zimbabwean nationalism against the wider context of African nationalism in general. The book departs radically from the common praise-texts in seriously engaging with the darker aspects of nationalism, including its failure to create the nation-as-people, and to install democracy and a culture of human rights. The author examines how the various people inhabiting the lands between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers entered history and how violence became a central aspect of the national project of organising Zimbabweans into a collectivity in pursuit of a political end.
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