[PDF] The Co Operative Movement In Africa eBook

Author : Mafukata, Mavhungu Abel
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1799823083

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Development studies in developing regions such as Southern Africa rely heavily on materials developed by Europeans with a European context. European dominance in development studies emanates from the fact that the discipline was first developed by Europeans. Some argue that this has led to distortions in theory and practice of development in Southern Africa. This book wishes to begin Africa’s expedition to develop proper material to de-Westernize while Africanizing the context of the scholarship of rural development. African Perspectives on Reshaping Rural Development is an essential reference source that repositions the context of rural development studies from the Western-centric knowledge system into an African context in order to solve African-centered problems. Featuring research on topics such as food security, poverty reduction, and community engagement, this book is ideally designed for planners, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, academicians, and students seeking clarity on theory and practice of development in Africa.

Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Office
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Cooperatives are omnipresent in Africa and represent a significant part of the private sector in most African countries. Successful and economically viable cooperatives create economic opportunities, provide a basic level of social protection and security, and provide their members with voice and representation. Yet, there are weaknesses and deficiencies of cooperatives in certain countries or sectors that result in poor performance. This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s. It contains a historical overview of cooperative development in the continent and in-depth country studies that illustrate not only the structure and operation of the cooperative sector, but also analyse the major strengths and weaknesses of various cooperative undertakings in Africa. The aim of this book is to alert governments, donors and researchers to a fragmented, dispersed movement and make a case for the viability of cooperatives in Africa

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271064269

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In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Author : Carl Gösta Widstrand
Publisher : Uppsala : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Collection of conference papers on problems of efficiency in cooperative societies in East Africa - includes a summary of proceedings and recommendations, comments on cooperative legislation and dispute settlement procedures, and covers political aspects, sociological aspects, problems of agricultural mechanization in agricultural cooperatives, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Nairobi 1971 November 29 to December 4.

Author : Johnston Birchall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719048241

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Examines the development of the international cooperative movement from the 19th century to the mid-1990s. Includes a chapter on the founding and development of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA).

Author : Andrew Emmanuel Okem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319342169

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The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful.

Author : Aaron Windel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520381874

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Cooperative rule -- Pedagogies of community development -- Anti-empire, development, and emergency rule -- Uganda's anticolonial cooperative movement -- Cooperatives and decolonization in postwar Britain.