Although gender and non-gender scholars have studied men, such an academic exercise requires a critical and focused study of masculine subjects in particular social contexts, which is what this book attempts to do. This empirically rich collection of essays, the seventh of the CODESRIA Gender Series, deals with critical examinations of various shades and ramificati...

Environmental degradation in Africa is often linked to management failure and political decline; One example of this is the dominant understanding of the unfolding of Taungya farming in southern Nigeria in recent decades. An agro-forestry method of afforestation introduced by the colonial Forest Departmpent in the 1920s and widespread by the 1960s, it is now percei...