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Africa: Geographies of Change

by Richard Grant

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Population growth, business interests, and global connections are transforming Africa from a "lost" continent to one of "strategic opportunity" in the worldwide geopolitical sphere. A timely synthesis of current thinking on this diverse, complex, and... Read more
Population growth, business interests, and global connections are transforming Africa from a "lost" continent to one of "strategic opportunity" in the worldwide geopolitical sphere. A timely synthesis of current thinking on this diverse, complex, and changing region, Africa: Geographies ofChange offers students the most realistic portrait of modern Africa available.Integrating material on China in Africa, the mobile-phone revolution, the Millennium Development Goals, sustainable development, "land and water grabs," food security, informal livelihoods, the "Green Revolution," and new satellite cities, this text adopts a realistically optimistic narrative thatfocuses on Africa''s burgeoning cities. By using case studies to highlight important topics, Africa: Geographies of Change incorporates new perspectives from urban studies, public health, political geography, and sustainable development in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of Africanissues. Less

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File size9.25 X 7.5 X 0.68 in
Print pages368
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date July 29, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199920563
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Richard Grant
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Richard Grant is an English writer who has been based in the USA for fifteen years. His first book, Ghost Riders, attracted enormous praise, winning the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His second was B...

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