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Abstract: ""This book examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world"--Provided by publisher"

Table of Contents:

• Volume I. Section 1. Business and economics. Chapter 1. Multinational enterprises and African economy ; Chapter 2. Operational structure of multinational enterprises in Africa ; Chapter 3. IFRS, foreign investment, and prevailing institutional structure in Africa ; Chapter 4. Business management models of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa: a study into their enabling environments ; Chapter 5. A cultural approach to African management philosophy ; Chapter 6. The South African female entrepreneurship context: enabling OR constraining? ; Chapter 7. Analyzing Africa's total factor productivity trends: evidence from the DEA malmquist approach ; Chapter 8. Social class and consumer behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for cross cultural marketing ; Chapter 9. Tourism migration in South Africa: current dynamics, immediate challenges and future prospects ; Chapter 10. Strategic approach to tourism development in Namibia ; Chapter 11. Return to the source?: challenges and prospects
• Section 2. Demography, culture, and identity. Chapter 12. The philosophy of African logic: a consideration of Ezumezu paradigm ; Chapter 13. Situating the place of youths' between African Union and Africa diaspora ; Chapter 14. Re-centering culture in development administration in Africa: remedies for Nigeria ; Chapter 15. Traditional African foods and their potential to contribute to health and nutrition: traditional African foods ; Chapter 16. Critical reflections on selected local narratives of contextual South African indigenous knowledge ; Chapter 17. Toward a normative ethical claims of ibibio social norms, values, and beliefs ; Chapter 18. Politics of belonging: ethnicity and identity of the kalanga people of Bulilimamangwe District in colonial Zimbabwe ; Chapter 19. A survey on the acceptability of equivalence-based translation into yoru⁺ђba⁺ѓ language in the domain of information and communication technology
• Section 3. Education and knowledge management. Chapter 20. Dynamics of collaboration between U.S. foundations and African universities ; Chapter 21. Accessibility of sino-African educational partnerships in higher education: history, achievements, challenges, and directions ; Chapter 22. The diffusion of the concept of knowledge management among African scholars: a bibliometrics perspective ; Chapter 23. Intellectual property rights and the protection of Africa's traditional knowledge ; Chapter 24. Enhancing learning opportunities through development of open and distance education in Africa ; Chapter 25. E-learning and management education at African universities ; Chapter 26. Africanizing science education: engaging students in context-based science instruction
• Volume II. Chapter 27. Indigenous knowledge exclusion in education systems of Africans: impact of beingness and becoming an African ; Chapter 28. Elearning and distance education in higher education accessibility: South African perspective ; Chapter 29. Educating digital citizens through curricular incorporation: a South African solution to information poverty ; Chapter 30. Information and communication technology (ICT) and its mixed reality in the learning sphere: a South African perspective ; Chapter 31. Angolan higher education, policy, and leadership: towards transformative leadership for social justice ; Chapter 32. Issues on financing higher education in Tanzania ; Chapter 33. Educating highly able students from an African perspective: a focus on indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe's views of giftedness ; Chapter 34. Moving against the current: student migration to Zimbabwe
• Section 4. Government, politics, and socioeconomics. Chapter 35. Prospects and challenges of e-government in black Africa: a comparative study of Nigeria and Cameroon ; Chapter 36. Elections, politics, democracy, and the challenge of sustainable development in Africa ; Chapter 37. Electoral polling and reporting in Africa: professional and policy implications for media practice and political communication in a digital age ; Chapter 38. The institution of traditional leadership and local governance in Zimbabwe ; Chapter 39. Afrikaner music and identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa: Bok van Blerk and the De la Rey phenomenon ; Chapter 40. Social media, Nigerian youths and political participation: a thematic and methodological review ; Chapter 41. Social media as alternative public sphere for citizen participation and protest in national politics in Zimbabwe: the case of this flag ; Chapter 42. African women and economic development: a tale of contradictions? ; Chapter 43. Foreign aid to Africa: conceptualising socio-economic and political development applying complexity theory ; Chapter 44. Creating a development bank to finance affordable housing in South Africa is a timely catalyst to address demand and supply challenges ; Chapter 45. Corrections and punishment approaches in South Africa
• Section 5. Human rights and conflict. Chapter 46. Managing terrorism in Africa: assessing policing issues ; Chapter 47. Absence of crime in African migrants' gambling and policing in Finland: an analysis ; Chapter 48. Transforming the narrative of violence in Kenya to a narrative of nonviolence ; Chapter 49. Transforming conflict in the hands and hearts of communities in Kenya: understanding the relevance of Amani Mashinani model ; Chapter 50. Zimbabwe dancehall music as a site of resistance ; Chapter 51. Women, peace and security in the SADC region: progress, prospects and challenges ; Chapter 52. Women and South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle: evaluating the political messages in the music of Miriam Makeba ; Chapter 53. Overcoming conflict between religious and cultural freedom and women's rights in Africa: its ethical implications ; Chapter 54. Child marriages in rural Zimbabwe ; Chapter 55. Reconciling homosexuality and spirituality in Africa as a heresy and survival strategy: a critical study of house of rainbow (LGBT church) in Nigeria.

Contributors:

IGI Global , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Information Resources Management Association , editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

African diaspora

Africa — Social conditions — 21st century

Africa — Politics and government — 21st century

Africa — Economic conditions — 21st century

2000-2099

Social conditions

Politics and government

Economic conditions

Africa

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed 04/22/2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (1022 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DT30.5 .A37 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781799830207 (ebook)
1799830209 [Invalid]
9781799830191 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3019-1

OCLC Numbers:

1125276803

Other Control Numbers:

slc00000441 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00239905