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New African Thinkers - Considering peace and development in Africa
Considering Peace and Development in Africa features contributions from emerging and mid-career scholars and is divided into two parts. The first part addresses foundational elements…
System Dynamics Models for Africa’s Developmental Planning, 2018
This book seeks to contribute to the literature on system dynamics, by focusing on the African context. It is intended for planners, decision-makers and other…
South African Foreign Policy Review: Foreign Policy, Change and the Zuma Years Vol. 3
This third volume of the South African Foreign Policy Review looks back over the past 25 years and assesses questions of continuity and change in…
FRANCE’S AFRICA RELATIONS - DOMINATION, CONTINUITY AND CONTRADICTION
France’s policy regarding Africa has been contentious and sometimes complicated. This edited book is a compendium of research work that attempts to assess issues in…
Poverty Alleviation Pathways for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
The inability to eradicate poverty in societies demands a synergistic approach, calling for the development of multipronged pathways for transitioning towards sustainable development goals. Many…
Regenerating Africa: Bringing African Solutions to African Problems
It has been long overdue to address the principal problems that Africa continues to have. How to bring real African solutions to these problems remains…
Sizonqoba! Outliving AIDS in Southern Africa
HIV has visited upon the world a huge tragedy; but ironically it has also inspired human triumph. Millions have succumbed to it and yet it…
South African Foreign Policy Review Volume 2
The first two decades of South Africa’s democracy have seen a growing breadth and depth in the analysis of South Africa’s foreign policy. is second…
Sustainability, Climate Change and the Green Economy
This book is a compilation of blind peer reviewed chapters from an inaugural International Conference on Innovation for Sustainability under Climate Change and Green Growth/Economy.…
Perspectives on Thought Leadership for Africa’s Renewal
This book outlines perspectives of emerging and established African scholars on what one could describe as the debate on leadership and the articulation of the…
Political Parties in South Africa
Political parties and the party system that underpins South Africa’s democracy have the potential to build a cohesive and prosperous nation. In the past few…
Belt and Road Initiative - Alternative Development Path for Africa, 2018
China’s emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders. Its focus on infrastructure development in Africa was endorsed by the signing of a…
The Blue Economy - Handbook of the Indian Ocean Region, 2018
As humanity enters the Anthropocene epoch, the oceans are more at risk than ever before as a result of the increased exploitation of its resources.…
FOCAC 2015: A New Beginning of China Africa Relations
The book represents what the editors call a 'policy think-tank process' and, as such, it opens an important scholarly and academic window for showing how…
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation - Industrialisation and Agricultural Modernisation, 2018
As the Chinese economy continues to grow, increased commercial engagement with Africa will offer the continent new and rewarding prospects for trade, investment and economic…
Inclusive Development in Africa Transformation of Global Relations, 2018
' This book addresses a fundamental developmental challenge for Africa: given all that we know about pertinent issues, what should be done to ensure effective…
Management and Mitigation of Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa: Input for Mineral Beneficiation in Africa
The book come at a time when key role players are battling to find solutions to a challenge of our time - Acid Mine Drainage.…
Natural and Human - induced Hazards and Disasters in Africa
Natural and human-induced environmental hazards are becoming increasingly prominent. The frequency of recorded natural disasters rose markedly during the last century, from about 100 per…
Peace Education for Violence Prevention in Fragile African Societies: What’s Going to Make a Difference?
Though conflicts among (African) nations diminished at the end of the last millennium, the need for peace remains a perennial concern for African citizens within…
Africa A to Z - Continental and Country Profiles – 4th Edition, 2019
The popularity of the first edition of this book necessitated a second revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the…

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Africa Institute of South Africa, or AISA, is the leading voice of African scholarship in South Africa. It is the window into African affairs. Well-known for publishing interesting and topical scholarly books, led by African fellows through the AISA research programme of the HSRC, it also publishes reference books that provide stakeholders locally and globally with information and insights that are essential foundations for policymaking. Its distinctive books are authored by researchers from various South African and African universities and from the Diaspora and provide fresh and authentic evidence-based perspectives that enable greater understanding and solutions for Development Through Knowledge.

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New African Thinkers – Considering peace and development in Africa

System Dynamics Models for Africa’s Developmental Planning, 2018

South African Foreign Policy Review: Foreign Policy, Change and the Zuma Years Vol. 3

FRANCE’S AFRICA RELATIONS – DOMINATION, CONTINUITY AND CONTRADICTION

Poverty Alleviation Pathways for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Regenerating Africa: Bringing African Solutions to African Problems

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