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African studies : breakthroughs in research and practice
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""This book examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world"--Provided by publisher"
""This book examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world"--Provided by publisher"
Details
- Creator
- [edited by] Information Resources Management Association
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Hershey, PA : IGI Global, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xx, 1022 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781799830207, 1799830209, 9781799830191, 9781799830191
- OCLC
- on1125276803
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Volume I. Section 1. Business and economics. Chapter 1. Multinational enterprises and African economy ; Chapter 2. Operational structure of multinational enterprises in Africa ; Chapter 3. IFRS, foreign investment, and prevailing institutional structure in Africa ; Chapter 4. Business management models of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa: a study into their enabling environments ; Chapter 5. A cultural approach to African management philosophy ; Chapter 6. The South African female entrepreneurship context: enabling OR constraining? ; Chapter 7. Analyzing Africa's total factor productivity trends: evidence from the DEA malmquist approach ; Chapter 8. Social class and consumer behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for cross cultural marketing ; Chapter 9. Tourism migration in South Africa: current dynamics, immediate challenges and future prospects ; Chapter 10. Strategic approach to tourism development in Namibia ; Chapter 11. Return to the source?: challenges and prospects -- Section 2. Demography, culture, and identity. Chapter 12. The philosophy of African logic: a consideration of Ezumezu paradigm ; Chapter 13. Situating the place of youths' between African Union and Africa diaspora ; Chapter 14. Re-centering culture in development administration in Africa: remedies for Nigeria ; Chapter 15. Traditional African foods and their potential to contribute to health and nutrition: traditional African foods ; Chapter 16. Critical reflections on selected local narratives of contextual South African indigenous knowledge ; Chapter 17. Toward a normative ethical claims of ibibio social norms, values, and beliefs ; Chapter 18. Politics of belonging: ethnicity and identity of the kalanga people of Bulilimamangwe District in colonial Zimbabwe ; Chapter 19. A survey on the acceptability of equivalence-based translation into yorùbá language in the domain of information and communication technology -- Section 3. Education and knowledge management. Chapter 20. Dynamics of collaboration between U.S. foundations and African universities ; Chapter 21. Accessibility of sino-African educational partnerships in higher education: history, achievements, challenges, and directions ; Chapter 22. The diffusion of the concept of knowledge management among African scholars: a bibliometrics perspective ; Chapter 23. Intellectual property rights and the protection of Africa's traditional knowledge ; Chapter 24. Enhancing learning opportunities through development of open and distance education in Africa ; Chapter 25. E-learning and management education at African universities ; Chapter 26. Africanizing science education: engaging students in context-based science instruction -- Volume II. Chapter 27. Indigenous knowledge exclusion in education systems of Africans: impact of beingness and becoming an African ; Chapter 28. Elearning and distance education in higher education accessibility: South African perspective ; Chapter 29. Educating digital citizens through curricular incorporation: a South African solution to information poverty ; Chapter 30. Information and communication technology (ICT) and its mixed reality in the learning sphere: a South African perspective ; Chapter 31. Angolan higher education, policy, and leadership: towards transformative leadership for social justice ; Chapter 32. Issues on financing higher education in Tanzania ; Chapter 33. Educating highly able students from an African perspective: a focus on indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe's views of giftedness ; Chapter 34. Moving against the current: student migration to Zimbabwe -- Section 4. Government, politics, and socioeconomics. Chapter 35. Prospects and challenges of e-government in black Africa: a comparative study of Nigeria and Cameroon ; Chapter 36. Elections, politics, democracy, and the challenge of sustainable development in Africa ; Chapter 37. Electoral polling and reporting in Africa: professional and policy implications for media practice and political communication in a digital age ; Chapter 38. The institution of traditional leadership and local governance in Zimbabwe ; Chapter 39. Afrikaner music and identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa: Bok van Blerk and the De la Rey phenomenon ; Chapter 40. Social media, Nigerian youths and political participation: a thematic and methodological review ; Chapter 41. Social media as alternative public sphere for citizen participation and protest in national politics in Zimbabwe: the case of this flag ; Chapter 42. African women and economic development: a tale of contradictions? ; Chapter 43. Foreign aid to Africa: conceptualising socio-economic and political development applying complexity theory ; Chapter 44. Creating a development bank to finance affordable housing in South Africa is a timely catalyst to address demand and supply challenges ; Chapter 45. Corrections and punishment approaches in South Africa -- Section 5. Human rights and conflict. Chapter 46. Managing terrorism in Africa: assessing policing issues ; Chapter 47. Absence of crime in African migrants' gambling and policing in Finland: an analysis ; Chapter 48. Transforming the narrative of violence in Kenya to a narrative of nonviolence ; Chapter 49. Transforming conflict in the hands and hearts of communities in Kenya: understanding the relevance of Amani Mashinani model ; Chapter 50. Zimbabwe dancehall music as a site of resistance ; Chapter 51. Women, peace and security in the SADC region: progress, prospects and challenges ; Chapter 52. Women and South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle: evaluating the political messages in the music of Miriam Makeba ; Chapter 53. Overcoming conflict between religious and cultural freedom and women's rights in Africa: its ethical implications ; Chapter 54. Child marriages in rural Zimbabwe ; Chapter 55. Reconciling homosexuality and spirituality in Africa as a heresy and survival strategy: a critical study of house of rainbow (LGBT church) in Nigeria