"British officials introduced Scouting to colonial Africa to strengthen their rule. In Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa, Timothy Parsons uses Scouting as an analytical tool to explore the tensions in that society. The movement appealed to t…
The urbanisation of poverty and informality in East African cities poses a threat to environmental health, perpetuates social exclusion and inequalities, and creates service gaps (UN-Habitat, 2008). This makes conventional sanitation provision untenable citywide, giving rise to …
The urbanisation of poverty and informality in East African cities poses a threat to environmental health, perpetuates social exclusion and inequalities, and creates service gaps (UN-Habitat, 2008). This makes conventional sanitation provision untenable citywide, giving rise to …
"Eastern African rain forests are remarkable in their high level of endemism. Miocene uplift of the central African plateau separated these montane and coastal forests from the main Guineo-Congolian forest of west and central Africa. Since then, stable Indian Ocean temperatures …
This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household incom…
A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes--an area stretching from East …
This short open access book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement of a cost-effective electrification process in the region. For each country, the authors review the current situation in the domestic power …
Introduction: The struggle for human rights in Africa, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Part I: Universalism and relativism in human rights discourse 1. Restraining universalism: Africanist perspectives on cultural relativism in the human rights discourse, Bonny Ibhawoh. 2. Toward a theor…
