Living Sustainably Here
eBook - PDF

Living Sustainably Here

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Living Sustainably Here

About this book

Living Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on the SDGs brings together illustrated essays exploring how African professionals engage with the challenges and opportunities captured in the Sustainable Development Goals. Blending lived experience, visual storytelling, and policy insight, the anthology invites general readers, educators, and curious young people to reflect on the future of sustainable development across the African continent. Paths to Knowledge: Production, Access, Literacy and Sustainable Development is the first volume in the multi-volume anthology, It traces the many routes – formal and informal, institutional and creative – through which knowledge is created, shared and sustained in African societies. It foregrounds books, libraries, schools and cultural practice as essential infrastructure for literacy, learning and sustainable development in The Africa We Want.

Information

Publisher
Makerere University Press
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9789786185477
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Volumes in the Series
  8. About the Anthology
  9. Editorial Note
  10. Foreword
  11. INTRODUCTION
  12. THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AT A GLANCE
  13. AGENDA 2063: THE AFRICA WE WANT KEY ASPIRATIONS
  14. PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF THEKNOWLEDGE ECONOMY | Publishing, distribution, and the systems that shape access to knowledge
  15. PART II: INSTITUTIONAL CUSTODIANSHIP | Libraries as custodians of memory and gateways to learning
  16. PART III: EDUCATION & CIVIC READING CULTURE | Schools, reading communities, and themaking of informed citizens
  17. PART IV: CONTESTATION & MARKETS TRAIN | Piracy, policy, and the pressures shaping Africa’s book economies
  18. PART V: DIGITAL DISRUPTION & OPEN KNOWLEDGE | Open Systems, digital access and the question of who owns knowledge
  19. Afterword
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Back cover

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