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Egypt, Energy and the Environment: Critical Sustainability Perspectives
Egypt, Energy and the Environment: Critical Sustainability Perspectives

Pure environmentalism and pure resource exploitation can be integrated together to form an encompassing sustainability solution. This is the main message of this book based on an innovative “structure-concentration-incentives” methodology applied to Egypt. This methodology provides a basis for achieving environmental sustainability based on endogenous sour...

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Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu
Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu

Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu offers a creative, innovative and holistic approach to understanding organizational leadership using the principles embodied in the African philosophy of personhood known as ubuntu – or the essence of being human. Using African proverbs, folktales and indigenous concepts, the book discusses the organizationa...

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Fragmented Families, Poverty, and Women�s Reproductive Narratives in South Africa
Fragmented Families, Poverty, and Women�s Reproductive Narratives in South Africa

Fragmented Families  addresses a central question in the demographic debates on poverty and fertility transition in southern Africa:. In what ways do women’s recurrent encounters with poverty serve to shape their sexual unions, social relationships and reproductive practices? The book focuses on the lives of a group of mothers and daughters from fifteen fam...

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Women in Business: Theory, Practice and Flexible Approaches
Women in Business: Theory, Practice and Flexible Approaches

In recent years, a record number of women have been breaking out of corporate life and embracing entrepreneurial careers  partly as a redress to the discriminations they experience in paid employments. Female entrepreneurship is emerging as a potent force as more women emerge as business owners even in economic sectors that were previously thought to be the prese...

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Post-Cold War Conflicts in Africa: Case studies of Liberia and Somalia
Post-Cold War Conflicts in Africa: Case studies of Liberia and Somalia

During the Cold War ideological and politico-military rivalries mostly dictated the actions of the competing blocs, including their involvement in foreign conflicts. In Africa for instance, the East-West rivalry of the time not only fuelled conflicts but also appeared to undermine the use of diplomacy as a tool for peacemaking and conflict resolution. With the fall of...

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State-Building In Post-Liberation Eritrea: Challenges, Achievements and Potentials
State-Building In Post-Liberation Eritrea: Challenges, Achievements and Potentials

State-Building In Post-Liberation Eritrea explores the potentials, achievements and challenges facing Eritrea in its efforts to construct a viable state after it became independent in 1991(de facto) and 1993 (de jure). It also examines the post-liberation experience of state building focusing on the institutionalisation, bureaucratisation and democratisation of state ...

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Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa
Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa

The study of African language pedagogy and use in the Diaspora was initiated in the 1960s as African countries attained independence from colonial powers. In the continent, the enthusiasm for the use of indigenous languages and scholarship has remained relatively moderate as scholars are conflicted in their loyalty to imperial languages. The attitude towards the use o...

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Free Speech v Reputation: Public Interest Defence in American and English Law of Defamation
Free Speech v Reputation: Public Interest Defence in American and English Law of Defamation

Free speech is increasingly recognised as a universal human value, even though its application differs in different jurisdictions. Free speech is however never absolute, even in jurisdictions like the USA, where the First and Fourteenth Amendments give it special protection. The main reason why free speech cannot be absolute is because it competes with other equally i...

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Technology Transfer from University to Industry: Insight into University Technology Transfer in the Chinese National Innovation System
Technology Transfer from University to Industry: Insight into University Technology Transfer in the Chinese National Innovation System

Technology Transfer from University to Industry provides a cogent analysis of university technology transfer in the Chinese National Innovation System (NIS). The book outlines the NIS approach, analyses the building-up of the Chinese NIS and discusses the role orientation of university in the NIS. It also discusses three institutional innovations – the Chinese v...

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Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap: Essays on Politics and Poverty in Africa
Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap: Essays on Politics and Poverty in Africa

Beyond the Primary Commodity Trap offers an alternative paradigm for analysing African development from the current “aid and aids” narrative. Taking as its point of departure Africa’s failure to extricate itself from over dependence on raw materials and its seeming inability to industrialise, it offers an analysis of the political forces that ...

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