The Routledge Handbook of African Development

725 Pages·2018·8.46 MB·English

by  Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch, Etienne Nel

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The Routledge Handbook of
African Development
This handbook presents an extensive new overview of African development – past, present and
future. It addresses key core themes and topics that are pertinent to the continent’s development –
including sections on history, health and food, politics, economics, rural and urban development,
and development policy and practice.
The volume draws on the expertise of over 60 of the world’s leading scholars to provide a
detailed and up-to-date analysis of the key opportunities and challenges that confront Africa,
and how such issues are being addressed. Arranged by key themes, the handbook provides not
only a historical understanding of the past, but also political perspectives of the future. The
chapters provide critically informed analyses of their topics by drawing upon the latest concep-
tual viewpoints and applied experiences in Africa in a form of case studies to offer a comprehen-
sive examination of the opportunities, challenges, key debates and future prospects.
This handbook is an invaluable state-of-the-art overview and reference concerning many
different aspects of Africa’s development, which should be of interest to academics in all fields of
African studies, and also academics and students working in cognate disciplines such as develop-
ment studies, geography, history, politics and economics.
Tony Binns is Ron Lister Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New
Zealand, and Visiting Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of
Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Kenneth Lynch is a Reader in Geography in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at the
University of Gloucestershire, UK.
Etienne Nel is a Professor of Geography at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand,
and Visiting Research Fellow, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg,
South Africa.
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The Routledge Handbook
of African Development
Edited by Tony Binns, Kenneth Lynch
and Etienne Nel
First published 2018
by Routledge
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Etienne Nel; individual chapters, the contributors
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ISBN: 978-1-138-89029-9 (hbk)
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Contents
List of figures x
List of tables xii
List of boxes xiv
List of contributors xv
SECTION 1
Introduction and context 1
1 Introduction 3
Tony Binns, Etienne Nel and Kenneth Lynch
2 African perspectives on development 10
Richard Vokes
3 The African idea of development 19
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
SECTION 2
History 35
4 Colonial Africa 37
Erik Green
5 Post-independence Africa: challenges and opportunities 49
Tanya Lyons and David Jolley
SECTION 3
Social perspectives 69
6 Demographic characteristics, migration and employment-seeking
behaviour: a case study of Ghana 71
Joseph K. Assan, Dinar D. Kharisma and Afia A. Adaboh
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Contents
7 Gender and development in Africa: a 50-year journey
from women in development to gender justice 92
Hazel Barrett
8 Inequality in Africa 104
Philip Nel
9 Education 120
David Stephens
10 Children 133
Nicola Ansell
11 Diaspora 145
Ben Page and Claire Mercer
SECTION 4
Health 157
12 Health challenges 159
Kenneth Lynch
13 The African HIV/AIDS epidemic: is the end in sight? 170
Hazel Barrett
14 Food insecurity and famine 183
Stephen Devereux
15 Access to essential medicines in Africa 202
Aarti Patel
SECTION 5
Environment 215
16 Water resources and development 217
Clive Agnew
17 Wetlands 232
Alan Dixon
18 Conservation and people 248
Fiona Nunan
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19 Ecosystem services in Africa 258
Rebecca Kariuki, Rob Marchant and Simon Willcock
SECTION 6
Development issues 271
20 African development: ‘Hopeless Africa’, ‘Africa Rising’,
or somewhere in between? 273
Tony Binns and Etienne Nel
21 Regional integration 286
Olivier Walther
22 The Millennium Development Goals 300
John Briggs
23 Africa’s natural resource corner and BRICS 313
Ian Taylor
24 Aid and debt 327
John Serieux
25 Faith in development in sub-Saharan Africa 341
Emma Tomalin and Adriaan van Klinken
SECTION 7
Rural Africa 355
26 Land tenure 357
Jon D. Unruh
27 Deagrarianisation and depeasantisation in Africa 368
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
28 Rural development 378
Simon Milligan and Sam Kareithi
29 Rural marketing in sub-Saharan Africa: some current issues 392
Gina Porter
30 Rural–urban interaction and development in Africa 403
Kenneth Lynch
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Contents
SECTION 8
Urban Africa 413
31 The politics of urban management and planning in African cities 415
Andrea Rigon, Joseph M. Macarthy, Braima Koroma and
Alexandre Apsan Frediani
32 Housing in Africa 426
Kamna Patel
33 Perspectives on urban employment in Africa: the case of informal solid
waste management in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) 437
Danny Simatele
34 Food security in African cities: linking urban food production
with good urban governance 454
Alec Thornton
35 The future and Africa’s cities 465
Garth Myers
SECTION 9
Economic perspectives 475
36 Africa’s extreme uneven development worsens during global
economic turmoil 477
Patrick Bond
37 Financial sector development, foreign direct investment and
economic growth in Africa 492
David Fielding
38 Agriculture 506
Roy Maconachie
39 Mining 516
Roy Maconachie
40 Supporting the SMME economy of sub-Saharan Africa: a role
for business incubation 532
Christian M. Rogerson
41 Africa’s tourism economy: uneven progress and challenges 545
Christian M. Rogerson and Jayne M. Rogerson
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42 Transport 561
Gina Porter
43 Land-grabbing in Africa 573
Simon Batterbury and Frankline Ndi
44 The economics of and prospects for China’s Africa return 583
Lauren A. Johnston
SECTION 10
Political perspectives on Africa’s development 601
45 Government: African development beyond ‘good governance’ 603
David Booth
46 Conflict and post-conflict 614
Hazel Cameron
47 Human rights in Africa: impasse, backsliding, or forwards? 628
Peris Jones
48 The International Criminal Court in Africa 637
Jonathan Hobson
49 Corruption 649
Philip Nel
SECTION 11
Conclusion 663
50 Conclusion: looking forward 665
Tony Binns, Etienne Nel and Kenneth Lynch
Index 670
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