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African Studies – Zed Books
Beyond Fake News
Edited by Idayat Hassan, Centre for Democracy and Development, Nigeria & Jamie Hitchen, Independent Researcher Explores the range of ways that WhatsApp is shaping everyday life in West Africa: from politics, misinformation and elections, to how WhatsApp is used for healthcare, by businesses and as a forum for news and discussion; to how it can facilitate family connections (and disputes), spiritual and religious connections and support women’s empowerment.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781350257870 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350257863 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350257887 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350257894 • £19.79 / $27.47 Zed Books
State of Slum
Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra
Paul Stacey, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Home to eighty thousand people, Accra’s Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal ‘squatters’ means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of the rights to which they are entitled as citizens. Drawing on rich, ethnographic fieldwork, the book takes as its point of departure the narratives that emerge from the everyday lives and struggles of these people, using the perspective offered by Old Fadama as a means of identifying wider trends and dynamics across African slums.
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 240 pages • Halftones, black and white 9 ; Maps 1 PB 9781786992031 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781786992048 ePub 9781786992062 • £26.09 / $37.08 ePdf 9781786992055 • £26.09 / $37.08 Series: Politics and Society in Urban Africa • Zed Books Impacts of the Farmland Investment Game
Joanny Bélair, Utrecht University, Netherlands After the global financial crisis of 2008, a new trend in foreign direct investments (FDI) emerged: investors’ rising interest in farmland in developing nations. Focusing on the significant farmland investment in Tanzania, the contexts of six investment projects in the nation are examined and unpacked, helping to understand the ways in which political struggles over land, capital and authority all feed into determining the goals and outcomes of the 'farmland investment game'.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781350273900 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350273917 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350273924 • £76.50 / $105.78 Zed Books
Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Contesting Africa’s New Green Revolution
Jacqueline A. Ignatova, Appalachian State University, USA An in-depth exploration of the impact of GM crops in Ghana, and what the ‘new Green Revolution’ means for development in Africa and beyond. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Ignatova’s work illustrates how the impact of GM technology in Ghana raises wider questions about development in the global South: who should guide it and why, and whether success should be defined by integration into the global economy.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781786996565 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781786996558 ePub 9781786996589 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781786996572 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books
The Politics of Fear in South Sudan
Generating Chaos, Creating Conflict
Daniel Akech Thiong, Independent Scholar As regimes across Africa and around the world become increasingly reliant on their own politics of fear, South Sudanese analyst Akech Thiong’s book offers new insight into a growing phenomenon with implications far beyond South Sudan. Weaving together social, economic and cultural factors into a comprehensive framework, he reveals how the country’s elites have exploited ethnic divisions as a means of mobilising support and securing their grip on power, in the process triggering violent conflict.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781786996794 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781786996787 ePub 9781786996817 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781786996800 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books
