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  • Global Nollywood

    The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry

    Edited by Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome ...
    Series series African Expressive Cultures
    "Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa." —Brian Larkin, Barnard CollegeGlobal Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In fifteen lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Africa and Globalization

    Edited by M. Okome ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North. Moving beyond the 'push and pull' framework that has dominated studies of this phenomenon, this collection instead looks at African transnational migrations against the backdrop of rapid and intensifying globalization. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Popular Culture in Africa

    The Episteme of the Everyday

    Edited by Stephanie Newell, Onookome Okome ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular cultures contribute to the formation of an episteme. With chapters on theater, Nollywood films, ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Contesting the Nigerian State

    Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self-Organization

    Edited by M. Okome ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In public choice theory, the received wisdom has long been that self-organization is an impediment to collective action, whether via the tragedy of the commons or a Hobbesian scenario in which self-interest produces social conflict rather than cooperation. Yet as this fascinating collection shows, self-organization and state-society relations have been much more complicated in the context of ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • West African Migrations

    Transnational and Global Pathways in a New Century

    Edited by M. Okome ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • State Fragility, State Formation, and Human Security in Nigeria

    Edited by M. Okome ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Since the 1990s, attempts at democratic transition have generated hopes for 'civil society' as well as ambivalence about the state. The interdisciplinary studies gathered here explore this dynamic through the complex interactions of state fragility, self-help, and self-organization in Nigeria. Nigeria stands as a particularly interesting case, as its multifaceted associational life extends far ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice

    Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries

    by Bola Akanji, Funmi Soetan, Vera Acheampong, Abiodun Adegboye, Adeniyi Olanrewaju Adekanla, Helen Akinyemi, Bishop Akolgo, Dorcas Alabi, Siobhan Austen0, Monica Costa1, Adebukola Yewande Daramola2, Olanike F. Deji3, Reina Ichii4, Tolulope Rachael Jerumeh5, Zohra Khan6, Judy Mulusa7, Abena D. Oduro8, Olufunke Mojúbàolú Okome9, Abubakar Oladeji0, Ifeolu Olagbaju1, Aanuoluwapo Oladipupo Opayinka2, Monica Adele Orisadare3, Enat Shiferaw4, Misrak Tamiru5, Neteru Wondwosen6 ...
    In the twenty-first century, gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has emerged as a development tool that explores if and how gender equality goals and targets are being effectively supported through government funding. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice: Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries argues that, although justified by the high costs of gender inequality to economic ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

  • Outside the Gold Circle

    by Emmanuel Okom ...
    Expectations from home run high for Lucky. All the extended family resources have been spent on his university education, with the hope that he will take over the family responsibilities when he gets a good job. But a good job in the Peoples Republic is a pipe dream for graduates from many families like Luckys, who have nobody in government. He is outside the gold circle. He must penetrate it or ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Africans in Global Migration

    Searching for Promised Lands

    by Janet Awokoya, Nemata Blyden, Bassirou Tidjani, Msia Kibona Clark, Hilary Chala Kowino, Tatenda T. Mambo, Mary Johnson Osirim, Ian Yeboah, Dr. Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome ...
    Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the construction and negotiation of diaspora spaces, and domains (racial, ethnic, class consciousness, including identity politics; and finally African migrant ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Gender and Power Relations in Nigeria

    by Funso Adesola, I. D. David, A. O. Ologunde, Anthony M. Oladoyin, Adesina Coker, Michael Abiodun Oni, Rachael Oluseye Iyanda, Adu F. Modupe, Mercy Onaodowan Erhun, Sulaiman O. Adebayo, Adedeji J. Ogunleye, Oluwafeyisayo S. Kuteyi, Iwebunor Okwechime, Akin Iwilade, Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Stephen A. Faleti, A. A. Idowu, Benson Kunle Sehinde, Moshood Omotosho ...
    Globally, women are oppressed and this book introduces the perspective of African women and especially that of Nigerian women. This book looks at the major themes that drive the women's empowerment programs in Nigeria. Feminists in Nigeria are shaped by the institutions, values, ideologies, and since the 1970s, the UN and its agencies have added an international dimension. The chapters, while ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • The Power of Networking with People

    by Lucky Okome ...
    The power of networking with people is a book to be used as a tool kit that will remind and show you everything you need to consider when networking with people. The book is design to do the following: 1. To take you step by step through the stages of getting to know people 2. To help you identify the advantages of becoming a passionate networker 3. To create more business opportunity for you 4. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

    by Hilde F. Johnson ...
    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 ... Read more

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