West African Studies Urbanisation and Conflicts in North and West Africa

West African Studies Urbanisation and Conflicts in North and West Africa

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-03-21

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9264817107

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North and West Africa are undergoing rapid urbanisation. While cities and urban areas have always been sites of conflict, given their political and economic importance, many insurgencies, rebellions and separatist movements are associated with rural areas.


West African Studies Borders and Conflicts in North and West Africa

West African Studies Borders and Conflicts in North and West Africa

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-02-19

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9264317376

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This publication examines the role of border regions in shaping patterns of violence since the end of the 1990s in North and West Africa. Using the innovative OECD Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator (SCDi), the report looks at the growing relationship between political violence and borderlands at the regional level, by analysing more than 170 000 violent events between January 1997 and June 2021 and through the exploration of case studies in the Central and Eastern Sahel.


West African Studies Conflict Networks in North and West Africa

West African Studies Conflict Networks in North and West Africa

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-03-29

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9264455906

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Conflicts in North and West Africa have become more violent and widespread than in the past. They have also become more difficult to resolve due to the complex relationships between a growing number of belligerents with diverging agendas. This report maps conflict networks and the evolution of rivalries and alliances in 21 North and West African countries.


West African Studies Africa’s Urbanisation Dynamics 2022 The Economic Power of Africa’s Cities

West African Studies Africa’s Urbanisation Dynamics 2022 The Economic Power of Africa’s Cities

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9264770860

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This report provides a new perspective on Africa’s urban economies that is unique in its breadth and level of detail. Based on data from more than 4 million individuals and firms in 2 600 cities across 34 countries, it presents compelling evidence that urbanisation contributes to better economic outcomes and higher living standards.


Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa

Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa

Author: Josef Gugler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1978-07-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521213486

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Originally published in 1978 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, this is an interdisciplinary study of rapid urban growth in West Africa. Gugler and Flanagan first explore the history of the cities of the early West African empires and they draw on the work of social anthropologists and sociologists, as well as demographers, economists, geographers, historians, political scientists and social psychologists. They then describe the urban explosion that the region experienced after World War II. They explore the implications of widespread urban unemployment and underemployment, the housing crisis and the emergence of metropolitan areas such as Lagos. The literature on urbanization and social change in Black Africa in general, and West Africa in particular, expanded at a fast pace in the years preceding publication. This critical review of the disparate findings filled a gap in African Studies and threw light on the understanding of Third World urbanization.


Urbanization and Migration in West Africa

Urbanization and Migration in West Africa

Author: Hilda Kuper

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-05-13

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0520360532

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.