Nyamnjoh examines how psychologists, as archaeologists of the mind and basic human instinct, have applied Freud's theory of the unconscious to the tension between a person pursuing personal intere
What passes for African history is the history of the white man in Africa--his-story--says Mhango, and therefore it is easy to overlook the fact that Europe would not be what it is today without th
Salo was preparing her doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Emory University for publication when she died of cancer in August 2016, and her family, friends, and close colleagues completed the
Municipal solid waste management tends to focus on collecting, transporting, and disposing waste, says Kien, with little or no attention to waste generation. She points out that most waste is gene
Tandi and Mawere explore the role that people-centered public works programs play in fighting poverty and supporting the economic development of rural communities in Africa. The continuing high rat
Scholars of law, politics, and other social sciences explore how an African jurisprudence might work if African law were not dominated by the remnants of European law imposed during colonization. A
Based on the author's PhD dissertation from 2003, this book examines the discourse in education for Africans from 1910 until the 1930s, focusing on the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tro
The reason that the world's poorest people live on the world's richest continent, says Mentan is that extractive foreign companies and the competition to access natural resources envelop parasitic
Charging that there has been too much talk and too little action regarding Africa's poverty and underdevelopment, historians and social scientists examine the empirics of the production and reprod