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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted Zimbabwe, exposing vulnerabilities in public health and governance. This volume explores the challenges faced by the nation, focusing on the need for innovative, home-grown solutions to address the crisis, particularly given the reliance on external aid for vaccines. It features firsthand accounts from scholars navigating the pandemic's complexities, providing insights into policy, risk management, and social issues. This resource is valuable for researchers across various fields, including African studies and political science.

It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations towards truly inclusive and sustainable development. A consequence has been Africa’s development naivety vis-à-vis the monopolisation of development by the predatory elite actors of the global North and their local facilitators. To salvage the continent from such predation and the insecurities engendered requires novel and innovative imagination and praxis. This book draws from both the haunted landscapes and bitter memories of past exploitations and from the feeding of the insatiable North with African resources and humanity. It brings together essays by a concerned generation of scholars driven by the urgent need for radical decolonisation of African development and its legacies of insecurities. It is handy to students and practitioners in economics, policy studies, political science, development studies, global and African studies.

The book addresses the persistent challenge of poverty in Africa, highlighting the gap in research conducted by local scholars compared to their Global North counterparts. It critiques the limited success in understanding and solving the continent's poverty issues and emphasizes the need for a deeper examination of the factors contributing to ongoing vulnerability. Featuring contributions from diverse perspectives, the volume provides a comprehensive analysis aimed at scholars and students in various fields, including African studies, sociology, and political science.

Exploring the paradox of Africa's wealth amidst its underdevelopment, this volume theorizes a sustainable framework to address the continent's challenges. It critically examines externally imposed mechanisms that have hindered progress, aiming to inspire awareness and promote critical thinking among scholars and practitioners. This book serves as a pioneering resource for social scientists, policymakers, and activists, offering insights into rethinking Africa's development trajectory and fostering actionable solutions for its future.

Examining the intricate dynamics between Africa, the West, and China, this book delves into the continent's socio-economic challenges despite its rich cultural diversity and resources. It questions the reasons behind Africa's developmental lag and offers critical insights for reversing its situation. Emphasizing self-reliant development, the author argues for a rethinking of Africa's future, advocating for a reclamation of voice and autonomy. This work serves as a vital resource for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners across various fields related to African studies and development.

Focusing on the impact of colonialism, this book delves into Africa's rich indigenous knowledge and cultural practices that have historically addressed various socio-economic and environmental challenges. It critiques the marginalization of these traditions in favor of Western approaches, advocating for their revival as essential to sustainable development. By exploring the interplay between indigenous knowledge and modern practices, it serves as a vital resource for policymakers, educators, and students in various fields related to African development and heritage.

Nemeso - a four eyed man-lived in southeastern Zimbabwe in the mid-17th century. Stories about him are widely known by the Duma in southeastern Zimbabwe as he left a legacy, a delicious dish - of edible stinkbugs locally named harurwa. These insects, believed to be a gift to Nemeso by the ancestors, thrive in a grove (jiri) where no one has been allowed to meddle since the time of Nemeso, the medium through whom the stinkbugs were gifted to the living by the living-dead. The insects are a source of livelihood for the Duma people and for people beyond, and serve as a drive for forest conservation in the area. The wealthy stories of Nemeso's life have been passed on through oral tradition. This book, generated from an ethnographic reconstitution in southeastern Zimbabwe, documents the stories in a lively and fascinating thirst quenching manner.

Focusing on the complex interplay of factors affecting environmental and natural resource management in Mozambique, this narrative challenges the simplistic blame placed on local communities for ecosystem degradation. It highlights issues such as poor governance, poverty, and corruption as root causes, emphasizing the need for a multifaceted approach to conservation. The book serves as a critical resource for environmental professionals and students, advocating for urgent collective action to address the intricate challenges of conservation in Africa and beyond.

The book addresses the conflict between scientific and indigenous conservation epistemologies in Africa, emphasizing that local knowledge could provide viable solutions to environmental issues shaped by colonial legacies. It advocates for the revival of indigenous practices, proposing that they complement Western scientific approaches rather than oppose them. This perspective aims to enhance environmental management efforts across the continent and beyond, making it a crucial read for conservationists, ecologists, and students in related fields.

Focusing on the impact of globalization, this study explores the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems through eighty-four traditional children's games from south-eastern Zimbabwe. It provides an anthropological perspective on these rare games, highlighting their risk of extinction. The book critiques the notion of superiority in knowledge systems while celebrating the creativity inherent in traditional literature and games. It serves as a call to action for both Africans and the global community to preserve and promote marginalized African cultural expressions for future generations.