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Resettled for Development : The Case of New Halfa Agricultural Scheme, Sudan
No full textThis Current African Issues discusses the displacement and resettlement of the Sudanese Nubians into the New Halfa agricultural scheme in Eastern Sudan, the current state of this multi-ethnic community and the challenges the farmers are facing. The Nubians of Wadi Halfa in Northern Sudan (also called the Halfawi Nubians) had to be relocated to New Halfa due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the early 1960s. In addition to the loss of ancestral land and the alienation they experienced, the Halfawi Nubians struggled to secure a sufficient livelihood in New Halfa and found their lives irreversibly altered. Although the resettlement of the Nubians did not succeed in rooting them in their new territory and a lot of the Halfawi Nubians have since abandoned the scheme, New Halfa has also created unforeseen opportunities for internally displaced people and migrant workers and become a growing regional centre for business and commerce. Despite the fact that New Halfa failed to meet its original targets, it is an example of a resettlement scheme that, in 50 years, developed and adjusted according to the needs of its current inhabitants
Thirsty, hungry and no power? : African resources in a global world
No full textWater, food and energy are fundamental to African development. However, several crucial issues need to be addressed. Are African resources used to meet African needs or are they being exploited to satisfy the needs of other actors facing food and energy insecurity?Theme for autumn 2014: Thirsty, hungry and no power?</p
If Mayors Ruled Somalia : Beyond the State-building Impasse
No full textThis Policy Note critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of two competing school of thoughts on state-building and international aid in Somalia - the ”Marshall Plan” approach and the ”Social Contract” approach. It also proposes a third option - a transitional strategy that includes more support to municipalities as the source of the most practical, legitimate, and effective formal governance in Somalia
Displacement Economies in Africa : Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity
No full textLarge-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced. At the same time there is a problematic lack of attention paid to the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation. In this highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the authors reveal the paradoxical effects, both intended and unexpected, that displacement produces, and that manifest themselves in displacement economies.CONTENTS: 1. Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Amanda Hammar -- PART I. Economies of rupture and repositioning -- 2. Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur “Chad borderlands” / Andrea Behrends -- 3. Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans -- 4. The paradoxes of class: crisis, displacement and repositioning in post2000 Zimbabwe / Amanda Hammar -- PART II. Reshaping economic sectors, markets and investment -- 5. Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues -- 6. Somali displacements and shifting markets: camel milk in Nairobi’s Eastleigh Estate / Hannah Elliott -- 7. Diaspora returnees in Somaliland’s displacement economy / Peter Hansen -- 8. Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis: relocating assets in Zimbabwe’s displacement economy / Sarah Bracking -- PART III. Confinement and economies of loss and hope -- 9. The IDP economy in northern Uganda: a prisoners’ economy? / Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug -- 10. ‘No move to make’: the Zimbabwe crisis, displacementinplace and the erosion of ‘proper places’ / Jeremy Jones -- 11. Captured lives: the precarious space of youth displacement in eastern DRC / Timothy Raeymaekers</p
Statistics
No full textContents: Finding Statistics -- Some sources of statistics -- References -- Web resources</p
Africa's world trade : informal economies and globalization from below
No full textAre Africa's world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions? This is the key question posed by Margaret Lee in this provocative book, in which she argues that all too often the voices of African traders are obscured amid a blizzard of statistical analysis. However, it is these very voices - from those operating on the ground as formal or informal traders - that must be listened to in order to form a true understanding of the impact trade regimes have on these individuals and their communities. Featuring a wealth of oral histories from across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, including Africans in China, Africa's World Trade offers a unique insight into how the complexity of international trade agreements can shape the everyday lives of ordinary Africans.CONTENTS: Introduction -- 1. Globalization from above and globalization from below -- 2. Chocolate City (Guangzhou) in China -- 3. The non-hegemonic world of Africa-China trade -- 4. Humanizing the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): inside apparel and textile factories -- Conclusion -- Appendix</p
Participative Design for Urban Housing
No full textThis policy note suggests a participative approach to housing design and delivery as a strategy for generating adequate housing. It further contends that this approach would help create convivial urban neighbourhoods in African cities by empowering grassroots networks to participate in the decisions of urban design and housing management
Affective Politics in Transitional North Africa: Imagining the Future : Workshop and roundtable report. 27–28 may 2013, Alexandria, Egypt
No full textText in English and Arabic.</p
Small farms under stress play a huge role for Africa : smallholder agriculture and emerging global challenges
No full textWidespread poverty as well as food and income insecurity plague Africa’s dominant smallholder agriculture. Paradoxically, the very people who mainly depend on agriculture are not able to secure their own food and nutrition needs. Today, three-quarters of Africa’s malnourished children and the majority of people living in absolute poverty are found among the smallholder farmers who are key to the development of the continent