The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management

Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic
to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the
Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty
and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the
major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with
little or no success on how to solve the poverty enigma. Sadly, little
research and homework have been done by scholars in context (in Africa)
on why there seems to be more production rather than eradication of
poverty and vulnerability in Africa and among Africans. This book is
born out of the realisation for the need for both scholars on the ground
and outside Africa to earnestly interrogate and reflect on the poverty
situation that continues to haunt the people of Africa and rattle the
conscience of the world at large. With contributors from across the
continent and beyond, the volume offers a balanced and rigorous,
multi-faceted analysis of Africa’s poverty and vulnerability from a rich
tapestry of perspectives. The volume is handy to scholars and students
in the fields of African and development studies, as well as to students
of Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and Policy Studies.