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This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent.Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market linkage, the book investigates the many factors impacting the growth of supermarkets in Africa. The contributors employ theories, concepts, and methods in order to help us to understand changing consumer behaviour, the strategies used by suppliers to access supermarkets, the role of service suppliers in the growth of the sector, and ultimately how supermarkets can assist in making the market linkage between producers and consumers in Africa. The chapters provide a comprehensive exploration of modern retail, discussing its growth and future, identifying consumer preferences, as well as suggesting solutions to the challenges that retailers and suppliers on the continent face in developing the sector.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the retail sector and retail management in Africa.

Rebecca Upton closely examines how women in a rural part of southern Africa give voice to contemporary issues of environment, health, economic disparity and the impact of migration on everyday lives through production of baskets for a global marketplace. These objects and cultural artifacts are both an insight into Tswana culture as well as a new means through which women produce, tell and re--¿tell narratives of cultural and global, financial success and resistance.

This book explores the concept of greening industrialization and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines how representations of African in the Anglophone West have changed in the post-imperial age.

Offering a fresh perspective drawn from the hitherto largely unknown Japanese research on the subject, Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.

The book reflects on the role of the creative economies in a range of African countries (namely Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda). Chapters explore how creative economies emerge and can be supported in African countries.

Focusing primarily on different phases of the post-independent Zimbabwean polity, the book draws on trends, practices and frames of reference which are applicable to many an African postcolony. These include the role, place and influence of traditional, non-mediated forms of political mobilisation, the place of discourses of colonial memory (and struggles against colonialism) in contemporary political communication, the place of the media in African society today, the nature and role of the African civil society, the rural-urban divide and the attendant variations in political messaging, the place of orality in African political communication, the role and possible influence of social media in political communication, among other factors.

Using a range of case studies, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media. They pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media.

This book examines the relationship between inequalities and identities in relation to an unprecedented state advocacy of "ethnic rights" in post-civil war Ethiopia.

This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage.

This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa.

This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.

This book explores health and care of the older population in Africa, focusing on policy and programmatic responses, gaps and future challenges related to health and care across the continent.

The book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and "indigenous" knowledge in academic research, teaching and learning programmes and beyond.

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.

This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context.

This book uses the lens of African and diasporic literature and film to explore how the practice of gendered violence breaches the human rights of people, especially women, children and minority groups.

This book is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, literature and the environment.

Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy.

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa "from below". Drawing on empirical research conducted across 14 countries, the book documents the processes, practices and meanings of legal identification in Africa from the 1950s.

This book brings together African and European experts from a variety of disciplines to examine the origins and current state of the East African Community (EAC). It will be of interest to researchers working on economic development, international relations, peace and security, and African studies.

Affirming the wealth and diversity of the region which continues to inspire creative artistic productions, this book examines the depiction of the Delta region of the Niger through literature and other cultural art forms.

This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.

This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. It will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa.

The book analyses how Africans and Africa relate to other parts of the multilateral world, and to the world in general, and how these relations stem from local, national and regional interactions in different parts of Africa, as well as Africa as a whole.