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The transition to more just and sustainable development requires radical change across a wide range of areas and particularly within the nexus between learning and work.
This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training that goes beyond the narrow focus of much of the current literature and policy debate. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban settings in Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this issue through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods. Crucially, it explores learning that takes place informally online, within farmers’ groups, and in public and private educational institutions.
Offering new insights and ways of thinking about this field, the book draws out clear implications for theory, policy and practice in Africa and beyond.
Conceptualizing the energetic developing field of rural criminology is challenging and doing justice to a study field within a continental context is ambitious. Indeed, the Global North possesses more examples of scholarly work in some areas of criminology, but believing it is a European or North American discipline is a false impression. Neglecting the contributions and historical developments of criminology on the African continent impedes the advancement of criminological scholarship overall. Africa is host to two of the ten oldest universities globally
Good infrastructure is essential for socio-economic growth and sustainable development. Safe and accessible water supplies, reliable energy, good transport networks and communications technology are all vital to a region’s development agenda.
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the state of infrastructure in Africa and provides an integrated analysis of the challenges the sector faces, based on extensive fieldwork across the continent. Contributors with a wide range of expertise challenge current policy, practice and thinking on issues including the politics of infrastructure development, social inclusion, domestic resource mobilisation and infrastructure financing.
The book will be an important resource for academic researchers, students and early career development professionals as well as policymakers and NGOs engaged in dialoguing the infrastructure development options for Africa.
Africa’s urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and wealth, and hazardous and unhealthy environments as the pace of change stretches local resources. Yet there are a wide range of perspectives and possibilities for political analysis of these rapidly changing environments.
Written by a widely respected author, this important book will mark a major new step forward in the study of Africa’s urban environments. Using innovative research including fieldwork data, map analysis, place-name study, interviewing and fiction, the book explores environmentalism from a variety of perspectives, acknowledging the clash between Western planning mind-sets pursuing the goal of sustainable development, and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements. The book will be valuable to advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in geography, urban studies, development studies, environmental studies and African studies.
Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. However, despite pockets of strong economic growth, Africa still faces major development challenges.
In this important book the contributors argue that Africa as a continent must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance to ensure the development of a society that is socially, economically and politically inclusive.
Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the contributors highlight what they consider to be the 12 major public policy conversations of the continent post-2015, from the legacy of African leadership, to the ‘youth bulge’ (and resulting unemployment) and climate change. The volume presents policy makers, academics and students with a chance to take a fresh look at urgent emerging challenges in post-MDG African development.
Part 5: Concluding remarks 643 SIXTEEN Infrastructure, political economy and Africa’s transformational agenda Mthuli Ncube, Charles Leyeka Lufumpa and George Kararach Introduction Infrastructure has been highlighted by many commentators as a major constraint on Africa’s transformation (Ayogu, 2007; AfDB, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c; Lin, 2012; IMF, 2014). Two argumentations come to the fore: good infrastructure and connectivity, which is critical for spurring supply responses and economic growth; and enhancing diversification and structural transformation by
Introduction In Chapter 1 , we highlighted the pressing need for a new approach to vocational education and training (VET) to support wider processes of just socioeconomic and environmental transformation. In embarking on our journey towards discovering a possible new VET imaginary, we take an initial step in this chapter by offering a brief historical overview of skills development in Africa. We start with a short consideration of the powerful and multifaceted colonial legacy that continues to have major influences on current processes of skills formation
1 Introduction: Infrastructure in African development Mthuli Ncube, Charles Leyeka Lufumpa and George Kararach Background This book is part of a series of studies commissioned by the African Development Bank (AfDB). Since 2010, a number of Market Studies on the Status of Infrastructure Development in Africa have been developed by staff of the Statistics Department of the Bank and other experts. Most of these papers have been prepared under the framework of the ongoing African Infrastructure Knowledge Program (AIKP), which is a successor program to the
This collection of in-depth ethnographic analysis examines the impact of local and global transformations on the care, or lack of care, older people receive in Sub-Saharan Africa. This volume provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about how to address the long term care needs of this vulnerable population.
Case studies from different regions of the continent (southern, central, east and west Africa) examine formal and informal care, including inter- and intra-generational care, retirement homes, care in the context of poverty, HIV/AIDS and migration.
1 1 Religion, health care, and Africa Overview Few studies focus on the influence of religion or a religious world view with regard to health care in Africa. An impressive policy review on health care in Africa by Cooke (2009), for example, acknowledges the importance of religion but does not go beyond that point in exploring the connection. A recent and valuable study of health-care policy in Africa acknowledged the importance of spirituality, but its agenda on state and society only touched upon religious institutions (Gros 2016: 179). The intersection
