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Determinants of Renewable Electricity Generation in Africa 非洲可再生能源发电的决定因素
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00006
A. Rashed, Chen-Chen Yong, Siew-Voon Soon
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A Soft Power Resource, Rationality and the Impact of Covid-19 on China’s Influence on Africa 软实力资源、合理性及新冠肺炎疫情对中国对非洲影响的影响
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00003
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey, I. Nunoo
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The Neoliberal State and Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria 尼日利亚新自由主义国家和Covid-19大流行的管理
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00005
Aloysius-michaels Okolie, K. E. Nnamani, O. Ononogbu, Ikemefuna Sunday Nwoke, F. I. Nzekwe, C. C. Ike, Ruth Obioma Ngoka, C. Okoro, Hope Olilanya Ekwu
{"title":"The Neoliberal State and Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria","authors":"Aloysius-michaels Okolie, K. E. Nnamani, O. Ononogbu, Ikemefuna Sunday Nwoke, F. I. Nzekwe, C. C. Ike, Ruth Obioma Ngoka, C. Okoro, Hope Olilanya Ekwu","doi":"10.1163/09744061-tat00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-tat00005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines how neoliberalism affected the management of Covid-19 in Nigeria. As a result of its emphasis on privatisation and austerity, neoliberalism discouraged social investment programmes and provisioning. The privatisation of Nigeria’s health sector severely stifled health financing, which led to the collapse of public health institutions and the proliferation of private and informal health delivery systems. It limited universal access to quality healthcare, worsened the health conditions of poor Nigerians and rendered the health sector incapable of managing emergency health situations, such as Covid-19. The absence of well-coordinated social investment programmes to cushion the effects of lockdown widened social inequality and misery, making it impossible for citizens in the informal economy to adhere to the Covid-19 guidelines. The state responded with repression to enforce the rules. This study recommends overhauling the Nigerian state and its political economy as a condition for reducing citizen’s vulnerability to a pandemic.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84098979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Terrorism in Africa: New Trends and Frontiers , by Glen Segell, Sergey Kostelyanets and Hussein Solomon, eds. 《非洲的恐怖主义:新趋势与前沿》，格伦·塞格尔、谢尔盖·科斯特利亚涅茨和侯赛因·所罗门主编。
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10034
P. Haokip
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Predatory Politics and the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Policy in Zimbabwe’s Mining Sector 掠夺性政治与津巴布韦矿业部门的本土化和经济赋权政策
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00004
Sizo Nkala
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A Review of the Political Economy of South African Land Reform and Its Contested Multifaceted Land Questions 回顾南非土地改革的政治经济学及其有争议的多方面土地问题
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00002
Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
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Labour Dynamics in Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME s) 中国中小企业的劳动力动态(SME s)
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10030
S. Gukurume, F. Matsika
{"title":"Labour Dynamics in Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME s)","authors":"S. Gukurume, F. Matsika","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the past few years, China–Africa engagements have intensified, manifesting in an escalation of Chinese small-scale entrepreneurs investing in African countries. Nevertheless, there is little research on everyday workplace encounters, management styles and labour dynamics in these businesses. This study fills this lacuna by examining labour and management practices in Chinese-owned SME s in Zimbabwe, and how local employees experience and perceive Chinese management styles and practices. We employed an ethnographic qualitative methodology, conducting interviews and informal conversations. Secondary data came from newspaper and civil society reports. The findings revealed that workplace regimes in Chinese SME s are complex and ambivalent, marked by precariousness, conflict, contestation and conviviality. The findings also highlighted meagre salaries, job insecurity, long working hours and unfair dismissals. We argue that the socio-spatial context of work in Chinese SME s in Zimbabwe is imbued with complex power dynamics driven by divergent cultural interpretations of work and being a worker.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75112998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding the Framework of Civil Conflicts and External Support for Insurgents in Africa South of the Sahara 了解非洲撒哈拉以南地区内部冲突的框架和外部对叛乱分子的支持
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-tat00001
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey
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The Gordian Knot 高尔迪之结
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10002
E. Keller, E. Omwami, Catherine Pauline Anena
{"title":"The Gordian Knot","authors":"E. Keller, E. Omwami, Catherine Pauline Anena","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article is a preliminary critical assessment of Uganda’s current refugee policy, ReHOPE, in the north-western part of the country. The research was based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered over six weeks in 2018 and 2019. The article is centred on national efforts to implement the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goal #5, “gender equity and empower all women and girls”. Here the focus is on the policy as it relates to formal education, technical training and livelihood improvements and the empowerment of female South Sudan refugees in two settlements in Adjumani District. ReHOPE is a very complex, ambitious and costly programme. The data from this study seems to indicate that the goals of refugee female empowerment and improved livelihoods are not being widely realised in the two Adjumani settlements accessed. However, it is suggested that future studies of ReHOPE policies should be more extensive than the present one and researchers, employing mixed methodologies, should spend more time on the ground than a few weeks.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83838025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Developmental State in Africa 非洲发展中国家
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Africa Review Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI: 10.1163/09744061-bja10031
Kidanu A. Temesgen
{"title":"Developmental State in Africa","authors":"Kidanu A. Temesgen","doi":"10.1163/09744061-bja10031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/09744061-bja10031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 As various studies have uncovered, a significant number of states in Africa remain in abject poverty and are underdeveloped, long after the end of colonialism. These degrading economic conditions are further reinforced by authoritarian political cultures, unending instability and civil wars. The few exceptions include Botswana, South Africa and Mauritius. To stimulate national economic and social progress, African countries have experimented with different development models. In this paper, we compare the developmental state experiences of Ethiopia and Mauritius. A qualitative research approach was used, and the study is based entirely on an analysis of secondary data sources. The analysis proceeds by using comparative techniques. The findings of the study reveal that though the employment of the developmental state model resulted in growth in both Ethiopia and Mauritius, the way in which they instituted key policies and institutions of the developmental state has been quite different.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83871640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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