Routledge Contemporary Africa
Russia and China in Africa: Towards a New World Order?
1st Edition
By Bohumil Doboš
September 04, 2026
As both China and Russia seek to extend their global influence and challenge the liberal world order, Africa is becoming increasingly critical to contemporary geopolitics. This book argues that it is within Africa that we can best understand the synergies and conflicts between Russian and Chinese ...
Ethiopia's Urban Transformation: Infrastructure, Mobility, and Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Thomas Betschart
August 24, 2026
This book investigates the ways in which Ethiopia’s urban landscape is being reshaped by an infrastructure boom in megaproject corridors and industrial parks. Drawing on extensive immersive fieldwork, the book considers how citizens negotiate, appropriate, or resist these engineered spaces. Tracing...
The Economy of Resourcefulness in Kinshasa: Informality, Small-Scale Trade, and Social Networks
1st Edition
By Sylvie Ayimpam
June 16, 2026
How, in a context of prolonged economic and political crisis, do city dwellers reinvent the means of their survival in Kinshasa? This book answers that question. Through fine-grained ethnography, it shows how micro-social arrangements enable small-scale traders to provision the city and ordinary ...
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors
1st Edition
By Tracy Tinga
May 22, 2026
Over the last 25 years, the "Africa Rising" discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals. This book critically examines that discourse, analyzing recurring themes, tropes, metaphors, and imagery. It traces the evolution ...
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
1st Edition
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By Viola Milton, Winston Mano
May 21, 2026
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an ...
Higher Education Transformation in Africa: A Quest for Epistemological Rupture
1st Edition
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By Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Logan Govender, Dennis Zami Atibuni
May 21, 2026
This book critically interrogates the notion of transformation in higher education, focusing on epistemological and structural issues in postcolonial and contemporary Africa. The book considers the multifaceted challenges facing higher education in the continent and uses the concept of ...
Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe: Identity, Community, and Change
1st Edition
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By Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
May 21, 2026
Marriage has always occupied a profound cultural and social significance in Zimbabwean society, but the forms and meanings attached to marriage have changed in recent decades. Marriage in Contemporary Zimbabwe provides a social analysis of the institution, highlighting how it is changing and ...
Pan-Africanism in Dialogue: 21st Century Strategies for the Future
1st Edition
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By Mary Nyangweso, Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha
April 30, 2026
This book considers how people of African descent can generate policies and ideas for the twenty-first century that are embedded in the ideals of Pan-Africanism. For decades, Pan-Africanism has championed an intellectual ideal that recognizes the unity of people of African descent in their efforts ...
Social Power and Politics in Africa: Magic, Religion, State, Democracy
1st Edition
By Jean-Germain Gros
April 15, 2026
This book investigates the ways in which forms of social power such as magic, religion, the state and democracy, coexist in Africa, coming together in cooperative and sometimes conflictual ways to form the essence of politics. Contrary to some assumptions, the book argues that magic and religion ...
African Understandings of Chinese Involvement: Power, Practices, and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Sabella O. Abidde, Dramane G. Thiombiano
March 31, 2026
This book brings together leading African scholars to consider China’s impact on Africa’s political, economic, cultural, environmental, and social spaces. China’s power and influence on the African continent have increased exponentially in recent decades, providing a range of political and economic...
Nigeria's Street Children: Lives and Dreams
1st Edition
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By David V. Ogunkan
February 20, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives, challenges, and aspirations of street children across different regions of Nigeria. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines and research methods, including extensive fieldwork and interviews as well as quantitative analysis, the book...
Ecocriticism and the Nonhuman in African Arts: The Agency of the Extracted
1st Edition
By Spring Ulmer
February 18, 2026
This innovative book examines the ways in which African photography, film, and literature are resisting environmental extractivism, using themes of interrelationality. Reminding us that we are all part of an interdependent collective, this book challenges us to act to reverse the extractivist ...