The Palgrave Handbook Of Contemporary Kenya

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Maurice N. Amutabi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031158544

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya by Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Maurice N. Amutabi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This volume is a bold attempt to address a comprehensive range of themes and issues relating to contemporary Kenya. It covers independent Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment with great breadth and depth, comprising thirty-four chapters divided into three parts. Part I focuses on independence and the political economy of development, followed by Part II on environment, globalization, gender, and society. Part III examines the external context’s impact and implications for Kenya and the role of Kenya in the global political economy.

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Maurice N. Amutabi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031094873

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The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History by Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Maurice N. Amutabi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence. The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts. Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment, detailing the nature of precolonial Kenyan societies and their economics, politics, gender dynamics, and social organization. Part II examines Kenyan societies’ encounters with British colonialism, critically outlining the impact and implications of these encounters. The volume concludes with an examination of political consolidation after the country’s attainment of political independence and the subsequent foundations for political authoritarianism.

Author : E. Waterton,S. Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137293565

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research by E. Waterton,S. Watson Pdf

This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.

Author : Jamaine M. Abidogun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030382773

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge by Jamaine M. Abidogun,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.

Author : Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137592910

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy by Adeshina Afolayan,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical enterprise in Africa, especially with reference to current discourses, arguments and new issues—feminism and gender, terrorism and fundamentalism, sexuality, development, identity, pedagogy and multidisciplinarity, etc.—that are significant for understanding how Africa can resume its arrested march towards decolonization and liberation.

Author : Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030555177

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore by Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

Author : Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Netina Tan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137590749

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The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Political Rights by Susan Franceschet,Mona Lena Krook,Netina Tan Pdf

This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Author : Tony Karbo,Kudrat Virk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319622026

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The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa by Tony Karbo,Kudrat Virk Pdf

This handbook offers a critical assessment of the African agenda for conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding; the challenges and opportunities facing Africa’s regional organisations in their efforts towards building sustainable peace on the continent; and the role of external actors, including the United Nations, Britain, France, and South Asian troop-contributing countries. In so doing, it revisits the late Ali Mazrui’s concept of Pax Africana, calling on Africans to take responsibility for peace and security on their own continent. The creation of the African Union, in 2002, was an important step towards realising this ambition, and has led to the development of a new continental architecture for more robust conflict management. But, as the volume’s authors show, the quest for Pax Africana faces challenges. Combining thematic analyses and case studies, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on peace, security, and governance issues in Africa.

Author : Nimi Wariboko,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030364908

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics by Nimi Wariboko,Toyin Falola Pdf

This Handbook provides a robust collection of vibrant discourses on African social ethics and ethical practices. It focuses on how the ethical thoughts of Africans are forged within the context of everyday life, and how in turn ethical and philosophical thoughts inform day-to-day living. The essays frame ethics as a historical phenomenon best examined as a historical movement, the dynamic ethos of a people, rather than as a theoretical construct. It thereby offers a bold, incisive, and fresh interpretation of Africa’s ethical life and thought.

Author : Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666925050

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African Immigrants and the American Experience by Wanjala S. Nasong'o,Imali J. Abala,Kefa M. Otiso Pdf

"This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in the United States in their pursuit of the fabled American dream. It examines and documents their travails, successes, and fate vis-à-vis the problematics of race, ethnicity, and anti-Black violence"--

Author : Susan M. Kilonzo,Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031368295

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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa by Susan M. Kilonzo,Ezra Chitando,Joram Tarusarira Pdf

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used to fuel violence and underdevelopment. Contributors to this volume offer theoretical discussions from existing literature, as well as experiences of practitioners, to deepen the readers’ understanding on the role of religion and religious institutions in peacebuilding and development in Africa. The Handbook provides reflections on possible future developments as well, thereby aligning with the goals of SDG 16.

Author : Georgina Barton,Margaret Baguley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137555854

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education by Georgina Barton,Margaret Baguley Pdf

This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education across the world. It is divided into six sections; Contextualising Arts Education, Globally and Locally; Arts Education, Curriculum, Policy and Schooling; Arts Education Across the Life Span; Arts Education for Social Justice: Indigenous and Community Practice; Health, Wellbeing and Arts Education and Arts-Based and Research-Informed Arts Education. The Handbook explores global debates within education in the areas of dance, drama, music, media and visual arts. Presenting wide-ranging research from pedagogies of adaptation developed in Uganda to ethnomusicology in Malaysia and community participatory arts to wellbeing in Canada the Handbook highlights the universal need for arts education and in particular the importance of indigenous (including both traditional and contemporary practice) arts education. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars and practitioners and building on the World Alliance for Arts Education Global Summit in 2014, the Handbook creates an essential resource for arts education practices in and out of school alongside institutional, traditional and contemporary contexts. Students, teachers and practitioners across the arts disciplines will find the text invaluable for developing further opportunities to promote and study arts education.

Author : Francis Onditi,Katharina McLarren,Gilad Ben-Nun,Yannis A. Stivachtis,Pontian Okoth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031282140

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The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Thought and Practice in the Digital Age by Francis Onditi,Katharina McLarren,Gilad Ben-Nun,Yannis A. Stivachtis,Pontian Okoth Pdf

This handbook integrates a range of conceptual and empirical approaches to diplomacy in the context of ongoing technological and societal change. Technological and societal disruptions affect modern diplomacy, altering its character and reforming its way. In light of such changes, this book offers both historical foundations and contemporary perspectives in the field. By doing so, it demonstrates how contemporary change impacts the work of diplomats representing sovereign states. Global diplomatic services will forever be affected by the digitalization of engagement between states during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In this rapidly changing culture, with burgeoning geopolitical and geostrategic realignment among global powers, the tools of diplomacy have changed. The state’s foreign policy astuteness and responses to these changes could have long-term impacts. All this culminates in opportunities for improving the management of diplomatic services and efficiency of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of various states. This book provides useful insights into how modern diplomacy works, especially the integration of informalities into formal diplomatic practices in complex peace and security environments, within such a framework of change.

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349952328

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook constitutes a single collection of well researched articles and essays on African politics, governance and development from the pre-colonial through colonial to the post-colonial eras. Over the course of these interconnected periods, African politics have evolved with varied experiences across different parts of the continent. As politics is embedded both in the economy and the society, Africa has witnessed some changes in politics, economics, demography and its relations with the world in ways that requires in-depth analysis. This work provides an opportunity for old and new scholars to engage in the universe of the debate around African politics, governance and development and will serve as a ready reference material for students, researchers, policy makers and investors that are concerned with these issues.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031491672

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities by Ezra Chitando Pdf