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African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality (2020)
Journal Article
Okech, A. (2020). African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality. Critical African Studies, 12(3), 313-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2020.1810086

Decolonization as a pathway to transforming higher education institutions in the United Kingdom has led to quick fixes such as ‘diversity’ hires and reviewing syllabi thus sidestepping the fundamental structural deficits that demand these efforts. Th... Read More about African Feminist Epistemic Communities and Decoloniality.

An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency (2020)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Roy, P., Matin, I., Rabbani, M., & Chowdhury, R. (2020). An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency. World Development, 137, 105213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105213

In the absence of an efficacious and affordable vaccine, the current crisis of COVID-19 is likely to be a long drawn one for many developing countries. In Bangladesh, where the entire population is susceptible and strict lockdown has been relaxed (as... Read More about An Adaptive Governance and Health System Response for the Covid-19 Emergency.

Imperialism and development : the East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy (2020)
Book
Westcott, N. (2020). Imperialism and development : the East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy. James Currey

As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyika... Read More about Imperialism and development : the East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy.