This manuscript is the product of several years of research in Adaptive Distributed Systems. It is inspired by an inner desire to face the challenges that result from the inherent mobile, decentralised and heterogeneous ...

UNRISD Director Thandika Mkandawire is the editor of this thought-provoking overview of the history, fate and possible future roles of African intellectuals both within Africa and in the African Diaspora nearly half a ...

This chapter discusses how the African intellectual faces a hostile media environment because media are largely foreign owned or dependent on foreign sources and programming. Media are also involved in a new form of indirect ...

This book offers a multifaceted portrait of Africa’s resurgence after decades of postcolonial authoritarianism and underdevelopment. It explores the social and economic transformations of African societies over the past ...