Handbook on Africa : challenges and issues of the 21st century / editors: Whitney Sherman.

Includes index.

US vote in African Development Bank / Djeto Assané and Nicole Parks -- The PEACE model : a sustainable approach to conflict prevention and resolution in Africa / Enyonam Canice Kudonoo -- The energy-development nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa / Raphael M. Jingura and Reckson Kamusoko -- The vulnerable nature of water security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) : a country by country analysis / Gurudeo Anand Tularam and Omar Moalin Hassan -- Between wizards and devils of the forest on development, health and diseases in Sierra Leone / Javier Rodríguez Mir -- Ebola and rumours in Sierra Leone : contextualising and elucidating perceptions of ebola through rumours / Rosie Wigmore -- Late quaternary environmental change in the Namibia of southern Africa / Bingqi Zhu, Xunming Wang, Jingjie Yu, Patrick Rioual, Yichi Zhang, and Ping Wang -- Fluorspar deposits at Okorusu, north-central Namibia : economic importance, history of mining, and geology / Richard D. Hagni -- Rabies in Namibia, more than a horrendous disease : the social, environmental and economic challenges faced / Scott, T.P., Coetzer, A. and Nel, L.H -- Malaria : an environmental health issue with tremendous socioeconomic impact on households in Democratic Republic of Congo / Di-Mosi Roger Wumba, Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Luzitu Severin Nangana, Sakiko Kanbara, Sifa Marie-Joelle Muchanga, Madone Mandina, Kei Tanaka, Stanislas Wembonyama, and Sayumi Nojima -- Solid waste management and environmental justice in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo / Nzalalemba Serge Kubanza and Danny Simatele -- Disasters and related health issues in Democratic Republic of Congo : epidemiologic profile and perspectives for efficient health care delivery / Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Sayumi Nojima, Jean Boleme-Izankoy, Francoise Malonga-Kaj, Di-Mosi Roger Wumba, Sakiko Kanbara, Mitsunori Ikeda, and Ayami Nakano -- Education and income inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Christian S. Otchia -- Which demographic quintile benefits from public health expenditure in Nigeria : a marginal benefit analysis / Kanayo Ogujiuba and Nancy Stiegler -- Fighting female vulnerability with football : challenging the gender effects of poverty in the South African context / Cassandra Ogunniyi.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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