BOOK REVIEWS: Readings in the International Relations of Africa

BOOK REVIEWS POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION The editor's introduction to this collection of selected reprints concludes by justifying its title: "While in earlier historical periods it may have made sense to regard Africa as a relatively marginal part of the world, th...

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Published in:African Studies Review 2017, Vol.60 (1), p.222
Main Author: Shaw, Timothy M
Format: Review
Language:English
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Summary:BOOK REVIEWS POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION The editor's introduction to this collection of selected reprints concludes by justifying its title: "While in earlier historical periods it may have made sense to regard Africa as a relatively marginal part of the world, those times have gone. Highlights include Michael Jennings's critique of Oxfam's role in Nyerere's Tanzania, which asserts that Oxfam "was blinded to the reality of Ujamaa and Tanzanian development as a result of the politicisation of poverty it held as central to its charitable mission" (78); Abdulmumini Oba on the question of female genital mutilation (FGM) as an issue of "human rights or cultural imperialism"; and Thomas Kwasi Tieku on the creation of the African Union. Reflecting and advancing both African and Global South developments, the International Political Economy Series from Palgrave Macmillan will publish two collections in 2017: van der Merwe, Taylor, and Arkangelskaya, eds., Emerging Powers in Africa: A New Wave in the Relationship? ; and Bergamaschi, Moore, and Tickner, eds., South-South Cooperation Beyond the Myths: A Critical Analysis of Discourses, Practices and Effects.
ISSN:0002-0206
1555-2462
DOI:10.1017/asr.2017.28