The Political Economy of Xenophobia in Africa

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Akinola, Adeoye O. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development,
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Regionalism.; Ethnology-Africa.; African Politics.; International Political Economy.; African Culture.

This book analyzes the phenomenon of xenophobia across African countries. With its roots in colonialism, which coercively created modern states through border delineation and the artificial merging and dividing of communities, xenophobia continues to be a barrier to post-colonial sustainable peace a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
•  Chapter 2: Crisis of Identity and Xenophobia in Africa: The Imperative of a Pan-African Thought Liberation
•  Chapter 3:  The Scourge of Xenophobia: From Botswana to Zambia
•  Chapter 4: A Comparative Analysis of the Context of Xenophobia in Nigeria and South Africa
•  Chapter 5: Democratization of Xenophobia in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of the Legitimization of Xenophobia in Ghana
•  Chapter 6: South African Higher Education: The Paradox of Soft Power and Xenophobia
•  Chapter 7:  Frustration-Aggression, Afrophobia and the Psycho-Social Consequences of Corruption in South Africa
•  Chapter 8:  From Hate To Love:  Black South Africans and the Xenophobia Project
•  Chapter 9: Xenophobia, Racism and the Travails of 'Black' Immigrants in South Africa
•  Chapter 10: Xenophobia-Coloniality Nexus: The Zimbabwean Experience
•  Chapter 11: The Quest for Development in Zimbabwe: Rethinking the Xeno-Ethnophobia
•  Chapter 12: Xenophobia and the Paradox of Regionalism in Africa: The ECOWAS Experience.-.