Environmental issues are all too often treated separately from politics and social change. This volume tries to redress the balance. Common to the essays is a search for the interrelationship between ecological stress and politics.

Ecology and Politics

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Nordic Africa Institute

As an urban anthropologist, pastor and teacher the author has lived for many years among the Zaramo. This revised doctoral thesis is an important and well documented study of the traditional healers in the urban setting.

The Medicine Man among the Zaramo of Dar es Salaam

Politics & Social Sciences

Swantz, Lloyd

Social Sciences

In the past, the transition from childhood to womanhood was immediate and direct, and menarche was a sign of initiation and readiness to marry. Nowadays girls find themselves trapped between customary expectations and the claims of modernization. This book by the Teenage Girls and Reproductive Health Study Group at the University of Dar es Salaam presents empirical studies of the situation of teenage girls in Tanzania.".. a work which draws attention to factors which impair the health of a class of people who form a substantial percentage of the community. This book should prove invaluable to social workers" --. (West Africa, 21-27 Nov. 1995)

Chelewa, Chelewa -- The Dilemma of Teenage Girls

Teen & Young Adult

In this book different authors investigates the range of the migration experience in Africa. Because of the variety and complexity of the reasons which surround and underpin why African populations are so mobile, this volume adopts an eclectic approach which illustrates the diversity of theoretical positions, as well as methodological and analytical trends. Examples of the great breadth and richness of empirical insights into human migrations in the contemporary African context are also given.

The Migration Experience in Africa

A pioneering work in the documentation of the Somali treasure of folktales. The book contains a selection of folktales in Somali with translations into English.

Folktales From Somalia

Hanghe, Ahmed Artan

The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.

Challenges to the Nation-State in Africa

Politics & Government

This book examines the rise and fall of the Ethio–Eritrean federation which existed from 1952 to 1962. The author argues that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN imposed federation and its constitution was doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of power.

Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience

Negash, Tekeste

This volume reports on the findings of an international research project on aid effectiveness in Africa. Field studies were conducted in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia and the findings show that Africa’s economic crisis has had a devastating effect on aid effectiveness and that too often donors dominate aid decisions, leaving governments without any sense of ownership over their own development efforts. The conclusion is that aid to Africa will have to develop more effective public institutions that fully take charge of the development process.

Foreign Aid in Africa: Learning from Country Experiences

Business & Money

Van de Walle, Nicolas

Economics

What makes a periphery? The south-eastern corner of Tanzania is officially one of the poorest corners of the world and is always presented as a peripheral area. This volume presents a lively discussion on the making of a periphery. The contributors show the interaction between the perceptions of outsiders, the views of local people, and the actual development efforts. The authors perceive development as a negotiated and contested field. Culture is not considered a factor constraining development but is seen rather as an engine which, due to the plurality of local and outsider cultures, sets the parameters for the battle.

The Making of a Periphery: Economic Development and Cultural Encounters in Southern Tanzania, Seminar Proceedings No. 32 (Seminar Proceedings (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), No. 32.)

This anthology aims at increasing the understanding of current management practices in Africa, and the challenges faced in building institutions. Two main themes run throughout the book: one is the character of African organizations with their strengths and weaknesses, while the other is the experience of close cooperation with an African organization. Together the authors create a picture of institutional development work in Africa and its enormous complexity.

Institution Building and Leadership in Africa

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