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A choreographed Sinophobia? An analysis of China's identity from the perspective of Zambia's Patriotic Front 精心设计的恐华症?从赞比亚爱国阵线看中国的身份认同

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1685322

Emmanuel Matambo

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引用次数: 3

An overview of the obstacles to the African economic integration process in view of the African continental free trade area 从非洲大陆自由贸易区的角度概述非洲经济一体化进程的障碍

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1685336

Michael Takudzwa Pasara

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引用次数: 15

U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: implications for climate finance in Africa 美国退出《巴黎协定》:对非洲气候融资的影响

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1685334

O. Olutola

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引用次数: 3

Mitigating gender gap in access to primary education in rural areas of Morocco 缓解摩洛哥农村地区初等教育机会中的性别差距

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1685335

Young joo Lee, Fouad Mouktaoui, YoungHwan Kim

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引用次数: 0

The subversive rug or how art reconciles with suffering in the postcolonial Maghreb: a reading of Laila Lalami’s ‘The Storyteller’ 颠覆性的地毯或艺术如何与后殖民时期马格里布的苦难和解:阅读莱拉·拉拉米的《讲故事的人》

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1637190

F. Mami

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引用次数: 2

Illegal street vending and national security in Harare, Zimbabwe 津巴布韦首都哈拉雷的非法街头贩卖与国家安全

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1685323

Mediel Hove, Enock Ndawana, Wonder S. Ndemera

{"title":"Illegal street vending and national security in Harare, Zimbabwe","authors":"Mediel Hove, Enock Ndawana, Wonder S. Ndemera","doi":"10.1080/09744053.2019.1685323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2019.1685323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to examine the link between political and socio-economic dynamics of illegal street vending and national security in Zimbabwe using the case of Harare. Scholarship has increasingly focused on the interface between the urban informal economy and politics in Zimbabwe. However, the nexus between illegal street vending and national security emerges as a major gulf which this article attempts to fill. Using the human security concept as its framework for analysis and relying on data collected through focus group discussions, observations and interviews with street vendors and different officials as well as content analysis, the article argues that the illegal street vending’s negative effects on human security threaten national security. On the whole, the negative effects of illegal street vending that have the potential to prompt national insecurity include lawlessness, environmental pollution and public health hazards as well as, though arguable, providing a ready recruiting ground for violent mass protests which attract the attendant police violence thus generating social unrest. The article concludes that the deterioration of human security conditions due to illegal street vending endangers national security.","PeriodicalId":41966,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"71 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85808668","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}

引用次数: 9

Africapitalism rethinking role of business in Africa 非洲资本主义反思商业在非洲的角色

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1689345

S. Hameed

引用次数: 0

Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa 在撒哈拉以南非洲建设有抵御力和可持续的农业

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2019-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1688933

I. Ahmad

引用次数: 3

Ocean governance, integrated maritime security and its impact in the Gulf of Guinea: a lesson for Nigeria’s maritime sector and economy 海洋治理、综合海上安全及其对几内亚湾的影响:给尼日利亚海事部门和经济的一个教训

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1631640

Chinyere Anozie, T. O. Umahi, G. Onuoha, N. Nwafor, Onyedikachi Josiah Alozie

引用次数: 5

Sustaining Ghana’s cocoa sector through environmentally smart agricultural practices: an assessment of the environmental impacts of cocoa production in Ghana 通过环境智慧型农业实践维持加纳可可部门:加纳可可生产对环境影响的评估

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Africa Review Pub Date : 2019-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/09744053.2019.1635416

Stephen Appiah Takyi, O. Amponsah, D. Inkoom, Gideon Abagna Azunre

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引用次数: 8