Contemporary Africa: issues and concerns

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Title:	Contemporary Africa: issues and concerns
Editors:	Ali, Islam Trivedi, Ashutosh
Year:	2011
Pages:	312
Language:	English
City of publisher:	New Delhi
Publisher:	Global Vision Publishing House
ISBN:	8182203716; 9788182203716
Geographic terms:	Africa Nigeria Ghana South Africa Somalia India Guinea Malawi Zambia Sudan
Subjects:	women's rights geopolitics economic development ethnicity African religions
Abstract:	This book analyses a set of specific topics to understand some of the social, political, economic, and cultural issues affecting contemporary Africa. The focus is on gender, geopolitics, religion, and socio-economic issues. Contributions: Women's movements in Nigeria: the challenges ahead (Islam Ali); Gender equality: what has been done for women in Ghana? (Ashutosh Trivedi); Human rights of women in South Africa (Ramesh Kumar Bhardwaj); Somalia crisis and peace-process: an uncertain future (Ajay Kumar); Strenghtening African capacities: India-COMESA relations (Sonu Trivedi); The hydrocarbon geopolitics in gulf of Guinea: implications for development of the Francophone African countries (Pranav Kumar); Trade and investment potentials in Malawi: opportunities for India (Rajneesh Kumar Gupta); Revisiting African traditional religion (Pushpraj Singh); Political Democracy and socio-economic development: what Zambia has missed? (Satya Prakash Singh); Ethnicity in African conflicts: a case study of Sudan (Umeshwar Pandey). [ASC Leiden abstract]