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Does the non-farm sector offer new hope for rural Africa? In the
face of economic crisis and restructuring across Africa,
small-scale enterprise has come to play a central role in rural
livelihood and accumulation strategies. This apparent dynamism has
attracted favourable attention from development thinkers and
policy-makers, who have identified non-farm enterprise as a new
low-cost agent of rural development. The research in this book
challenges the growing consensus on the developmental potential of
the non-farm sector. On the basis of recent fieldwork, the author
argues that the prospects for non-farm led growth have been
seriously undermined by the crippling pressures of structural
adjustment, agricultural instability and rural as well as
interregional inequality. Detailed village case-studies from the
populous and highly commercialized grain surplus region of the
Nigerian savanna leads the reader to investigate the link between
local economic and social realities, and the wider regional,
national and global processes that form the development of the
non-farm sector in Africa. Far from offering a bargain solution,
the author demonstrates that significant investment in agriculture
and entrepreneurial development will be needed to create an
enabling environment for non-farm growth.
A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram
insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks,
resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and
beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic
group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern
Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2
million people. While its territorial gains have largely been
recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across
vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance,
livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive
popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a
diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so
violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little
influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as
the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar
Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This
book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the
wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram
emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society
to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist
Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the
worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present,
the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism
in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress,
migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human
rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out
of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times Books
This title was first published in 2001: Does the non-farm sector
offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and
restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise has come to
play a central role in rural livelihood and accumulation
strategies. This apparent dynamism has attracted favourable
attention from development thinkers and policy-makers, who have
identified non-farm enterprise as a new low-cost agent of rural
development. The research in this book challenges the growing
consensus on the developmental potential of the non-farm sector. On
the basis of recent fieldwork, the author argues that the prospects
for non-farm led growth have been seriously undermined by the
crippling pressures of structural adjustment, agricultural
instability and rural as well as interregional inequality. Detailed
village case-studies from the populous and highly commercialized
grain surplus region of the Nigerian savanna leads the reader to
investigate the link between local economic and social realities,
and the wider regional, national and global processes that form the
development of the non-farm sector in Africa. Far from offering a
bargain solution, the author demonstrates that significant
investment in agriculture and entrepreneurial development will be
needed to create an enabling environment for non-farm growth.
This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in
the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and
poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection
between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic
inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour
migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid,
challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally
irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global
demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised
labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour
brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations.
Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and
from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages
increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working
conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and
political conditions needed for African workers to capture the
gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously
published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that
threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications
for global peace and security. In northern Nigeria, high levels of
ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between
Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The
climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development,
accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the
country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the
country. Externally, fears have also been expressed that Islamist
movements in northern Nigeria form part of a wider network
constituting a threat to global peace and security. Refuting a
"clash of civilizations" between Muslims and Christians, the
authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and
Christian groups contending for influence and relevance, and the
doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and
violence between and within them. They analyse three of the most
contentious issues: the conflicts in Jos; the Boko Haram
insurgency; and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the
declaration of full Sharia law in 12 Muslim majority states.
Finally, they suggest appropriate and effective policy responses at
local, national and international levels, discussing the importance
of informal institutions as avenues for peace-building and the
complementarities between local and national dynamics in the search
for peace. Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor in African
Politics, University of Oxford. David Ehrhardt is Assistant
Professor of International Development at Leiden University
College. Companion volume: Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim
Identities &Conflict in Northern Nigeria edited by Abdul Raufu
Mustapha (James Currey 2014) Nigeria: Premium Times Books
A comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram
insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks,
resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and
beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic
group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern
Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2
million people. While its territorial gains have largely been
recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across
vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance,
livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to
Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive
popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a
diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so
violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little
influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as
the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar
Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This
book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the
wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram
emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society
to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist
Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the
worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present,
the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism
in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress,
migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human
rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out
of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times Books
This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of
the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and
economic governance in Africa. Why have informal enterprise
networks failed to promote economic development in Africa? Although
social networks were thought to offer a solution to state
incapacity and market failure, the proliferation of socially
embedded enterprise networks across Africa has generated disorder
and economic decline rather than development. This book challenges
the prevailing assumption that the problem of African development
lies in bad cultural institutions by showingthat informal economic
governance in Nigeria is shaped, not just by culture, but by the
disruptive effects of rapid liberalization, state decline and
political capture. Identity Economics traces the rise of two
dynamic informal enterprise clusters in Nigeria, and explores their
slide into trajectories of Pentecostalism, poverty and violent
vigilantism. Drawing on over twenty years of empirical research on
African informal economies, the author highlights the institutional
legacies, networking strategies and globalizing dynamics that shape
the regulatory role of social networks in Africa's largest and most
turbulent economy. Through an ethnography of informal
economicgovernance, this book shows how ties of ethnicity, class,
gender and religion are used to restructure enterprise networks in
response to contemporary economic challenges. Moving beyond
primordialist interpretations of African culture, attention is
drawn to the critical role of the state and the macro-economic
policy environment in shaping trajectories of informal economic
governance. KATE MEAGHER is a former Research Associate at Queen
Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and is currently a Lecturer
in the Development Studies Institute at the London School of
Economics. Nigeria: HEBN
This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in
the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and
poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection
between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic
inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour
migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid,
challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally
irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global
demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised
labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour
brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations.
Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and
from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages
increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working
conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and
political conditions needed for African workers to capture the
gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously
published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that
threaten the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for
global peace and security. In northern Nigeria, high levels of
ethnic diversity have resulted in acute polarization between
Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The
climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development,
accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the
country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the
country. Externally, fears have also been expressed that Islamist
movements in northern Nigeria form partof a wider network
constituting a threat to global peace and security. Refuting a
"clash of civilizations" between Muslims and Christians, the
authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and
Christiangroups contending for influence and relevance, and the
doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and
violence between and within them. They analyse some of the region's
most contentious issues: conflict and peacebuilding in Jos; the
Boko Haram insurgency; the informal economy; and the challenges of
legal pluralism posed by the declaration of "full" Sharia law in 12
Muslim-majority states. Finally, they suggest appropriate and
effective policyresponses at local, national, and international
levels, discussing the importance of informal institutions as
avenues for peace-building and the complementarities between local
and national dynamics in the search for peace. Abdul Raufu Mustapha
(deceased 2017), was Associate Professor in African Politics,
University of Oxford. David Ehrhardt is Assistant Professor of
International Development at Leiden University College, The
Netherlands. Companion volume: Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim
Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria edited by Abdul Raufu
Mustapha (James Currey 2014) Nigeria: Premium Times Books
PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Analyses the complexities of
Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of
Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.
Nigeria: Premium TimesBooks In northern Nigeria, high levels of
ethnic diversity have coincided with acute polarization between
Muslims and Christians, increasingly fuelling violent conflict. The
climate of insecurity threatens northern Nigeria's development,
accentuates the inequalities between it and the rest of the
country, and undermines the attempt to stabilize democracy in the
country. Externally, fears have also been expressed that Islamist
movements in northern Nigeria form part of a wider network
constituting a threat to global peace and security. Refuting a
"clash of civilizations" between Muslims and Christians, the
authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and
Christian groups contending for influence and relevance, and the
doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and
violence between and within them. They analyse some of the region's
most contentious issues: conflict and peacebuilding in Jos; the
Boko Haram insurgency; the informal economy; and the challenges of
legal pluralism posed by the declaration of "full" Sharia law in 12
Muslim-majority states. Finally, they suggest appropriate and
effective policy responses at local, national, and international
levels, discussing the importance of informal institutions as
avenues for peace-building and the complementarities between local
and national dynamics in the search for peace. Abdul Raufu Mustapha
is Associate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford;
David Ehrhardt is Assistant Professor of International Development
at Leiden University College. Companion volume: Sects &Social
Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria
edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha (James Currey 2014) Nigeria: Premium
Times Books
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