Urban Africa and Violent Conflict
Urban Africa and Violent Conflict

Author: Karen Büscher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1000011682

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Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as ‘safe havens’ for those seeking protection, as concentrations of public administrative and military apparatus, and as symbolic bases of state sovereignty and public authority. Heavy fighting in South Sudan’s capital city of Juba, post electoral protests and brutal killings in Bujumbura, Burundi, and violent urban uprisings in Congo’s cities of Goma and Kinshasa, all demonstrate that cities represent critical arenas in African conflict and post-conflict dynamics. This comprehensive volume offers a profound analysis of the complex relationship between the dynamics of violent conflict and urbanisation in Central and Eastern Africa. The authors underline the need to look simultaneously at cities to understand ongoing conflict and violence, and at conflict-dynamics to understand current urbanisation processes in this part of the world. Building on empirical and analytical insights from cities in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, South Sudan and Kenya, this collection demonstrates how emerging urbanism in the larger Great-Lakes region and its Eastern neighbours presents a fascinating window to investigate the transformative power of protracted violent conflict. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

State, governance and development in Africa
State, governance and development in Africa

Author: Firoz Khan

Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1775822087

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The inspiration for this book was a Summer School on State, Governance and Development presented by distinguished academics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Written by young African scholars, the chapters here focus on state, governance and development in Africa as seen from the authors’ vantage points and positions in different sectors of society. The book opens with forewords by eminent African scholars, including Ben Turok and Mohamed Halfani. The chapters that follow examine rent-seeking, patronage, neopatrimonialism and bad governance. They engage with statehood, state-building and statecraft and challenge the mainstream opinions of donors, funders, development banks, international non-governmental organisations and development organisations. They include the role of China in Africa, Kenya’s changing demographics, state accountability in South Africa’s dominant party system, Somalia’s prospects for state-building, urban development and routine violence, and resource mobilisation. At a time in which core institutions are being tested -- the market, the rule of law, democracy, civil society and representative democracy – this book offers a much-needed multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective, and a different narrative on what is unfolding, while also exposing dynamics that are often overlooked.

Kenya's 2013 General Election
Kenya's 2013 General Election

Author: Njogu, Kimani

Publisher: Twaweza Communications

Published: 2017-08-09

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9966028560

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When voters enthusiastically turn up to cast their vote during general elections, they expect that their action would meaningfully change their lives. But in most of Africa, even when elections are held on a regular basis, voters are quite often disappointed by the performance of their leaders who use the new positions as an opportunity to loot public resources and consolidate power. It is almost as if elections are of minimal value to the populace. Notwithstanding this trend, when they are free and fair, general elections can be transformative. They can bring into the political arena men and women of integrity committed to service and account-ability. Inspired by the determination to have inclusive governance and the advancement of democracy, Kenya’s 2013 General Election: Stakes, Practices and Outcomes asks important questions related to political participation, coalition building, politics of identity, the international criminal court, electoral systems and institutions, and the judiciary. The papers are written by mainly Kenyan academics and civil society actors who examine the drivers of the 2013 general elections and the sources of the mandate to lead.This book is part of publications by Twaweza Communications on democratic practice and accountable governance in Kenya.

Mungu Hakopeshwi
Mungu Hakopeshwi

Author: Alwi Baharoon

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 998744928X

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Riwaya ya Mungu Hakopeshwi inaelezea maisha ya familia moja ya Unguja iliyoingia katika mitafaruku na mikasa mingi. Kila kitu huwa na chanzo na khatima; basi ni nini chanzo cha mitafaruku hiyo na khatima yake ilikuwaje? Simulizi ni juu ya baba, Bw. Ahmed, mwenye hasira kali zisizo na mipaka, aliyeongoza familia yake kwa utashi wa nafsi yake, bila kujali hisia za mkewe wala wanawe. Kumbe moyoni mwake alihifadhi siri, na hiyo siri ndiyo iliyomfanya Bw. Ahmed kuwa mkali bila kiasi, ikimsukuma azuie kurejea kwa yale yaliyomfika zamani. Lakini kivuli cha historia ya maisha yake ya nyuma hakikuacha kumuandama. Riwaya hii i meandikwa kwa lugha nzuri na fasaha, kwa ufundi wa msanii makini na mwelewa wa maisha ya jamii za Kizanzibari na za mwambao kwa jumla.

Safari ya Irene
Safari ya Irene

Author: Simon Rieber

Publisher: Prime Publishers

Published: 2023-01-29

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13:

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Safari ya Irene ni riwaya inayo muhusu binti Irene Paul mwanafunzi wa chuo kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, anayejikuta akiingia kwenye matatizo makubwa baada ya kufunga safari na kumfuata kijana Francis anayeishi mkoani Iringa aliyekutana nae mtandaoni lakini Francis alipokuwa anakwenda stendi kumpokea stendi alipata ajali mbaya ya gali n kupoteza maisha na binti Irene alipofika Iringa alifikia msibani na kutuhumiwa kama muuaji nakujikuta akiandamwa na askali mkoani Iringa ambapo hana ndugu wala jamaa yeyote.

Matarajio Adimu (Great Expectations)
Matarajio Adimu (Great Expectations)

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Genesis Press Kiswahili

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1585716545

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Matarajio Adhimu ni kitabu cha riwaya za Charles Dickens. Riwaya ambazo kwa mara ya kwanza zilichapishwa kwa mfululizo kwa mwaka mzima kuanzia tarehe 1 Desemba 1860 hadi mwezi Agusti 1861. Riwaya ambazo zimeweza kuigizwa na kuchezwa filamu zaidi ya mara 250. Matarajio Adhimu, kimeandikwa kwa nafsi ya kwanza kuhusu mtoto yatima aitwaye Pip. Kitabu hiki, kama zilivyo riwaya za Dickens, kinaelezea uzoefu wa maisha alisia na watu nyakati hizo.

Challenging the Rulers
Challenging the Rulers

Author: Duncan Okoth-Okombo

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9966258140

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Challenging The Rulers: A Leadership Model for Good Governance brings to the fore the issue of leadership in developing countries like Kenya. Citing specific examples, it singles out bad leadership as the cause of stagnation and underdevelopment in Africa. This book advocates for a serious discourse on leadership as the most critical factor in a national quest for good governance and prosperity. Unlike other writers who bemoan the state of affairs in Africa without offering alternatives, the authors propose a leadership model that can ensure good governance. This is based on the premise that good leadership means good governance hence reasonable economic growth and development. Values and principles of good leadership are outlined. In 2010, Kenya took its pride of place among nations by enacting a new progressive constitution which among other things provides for a devolved government. However, the authors argue that good laws, structures, systems and policies simply provide the infrastructure for good governance. To move Kenya forward, good men and women of vision, who are committed to servant leadership, must rise up to activate these laws to bring about good governance as a means of improving people's quality of life. In a nutshell, this book advocates for reforms in leadership. Challenging The Rulers is a challenge to all leaders - present and aspiring - to adopt this leadership model. To ordinary citizens, it is a call to take necessary action to elect good leaders.