The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulner

Building Bridges of Resilience, Entrepreneurshi

Munyaradzi Mawere

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9789956763115
• eBook ISBN: 9789956764334
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Politica africana

Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve the poverty enigma. Sadly, little research and homework have been done by scholars in context (in Africa) on why there seems to be more production rather than eradication of poverty and vulnerability in Africa and among Africans. This book is born out of the realisation for the need for both scholars on the ground and outside Africa to earnestly interrogate and reflect on the poverty situation that continues to haunt the people of Africa and rattle the conscience of the world at large. With contributors from across the continent and beyond, the volume offers a balanced and rigorous, multi-faceted analysis of Africas poverty and vulnerability from a rich tapestry of perspectives. The volume is handy to scholars and students in the fields of African and development studies, as well as to students of Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and Policy Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• About the Contributors
• Contents
• Chapter 1 - Poverty and Vulnerability in Africa: Reversing the Losses and Capitulating on the Gains
• Chapter 2 - The Political Economy of Poverty and Vulnerability: How Africa Can Break the Cycle of Poverty to Unlock its Underdevelopment Jam?
• Chapter 3 - Poverty and the Discourses about the Global North’s Playing of the Global South
• Chapter 4 - Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Rethinking Africa’s Socio-political Economy
• Chapter 5 - Resorting to Illegality: The Illicit Shangwe Cannabis Trade as an Anti-cotton Response to Agrarian Policy in Colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1962-1979
• Chapter 6 - Political Naivety, Corruption, and Poverty Promotion in Africa: Riding the ‘Poorest-ugliest French’ Bijuralism Horse from Cameroon to Canada via Britain
• Chapter 7 - Poverty and Environmental Degradation on a Large Scale: The History of the Establishment, Operation and Management of a Multinational Mining Enterprise at Mashava, 1903-2015
• Chapter 8 - Ethnographic Monitoring Through Phone-in Radio Programs: An Example from Ankore, Uganda
• Chapter 9 - Fighting Fellow Comrades in the Trenches of Poverty in Africa? Interrogating the Fees Must Fall Movement at the University of Namibia and Universities in South Africa
• Chapter 10 - The Impoverished African and the Poverty of Colonially Inherited Education in Africa
• Chapter 11 - Children, Women, Development and Fundamental Human Rights in Some African Societies
• Chapter 12 - Community Engagement for Development and Poverty Alleviation in Rural Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Chikunguwo Community Gardening in Bikita
• Chapter 13 - Seeing Beyond National Borders: Impoverished Visually-impaired Zimbabwean Beggars in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Chapter 14 - Disasters, the Marginalised and Media Preparedness in Zimbabwe: Reflections on the Masvingo-based Community Media Organisations’ Coverage of the 2017 Cyclone Dineo Victims
• Back cover