Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

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where he has worked in different capacities as a Senior lecturer, Assistant Research Director, Postgraduate Co-ordinator and Associate Professor. He has an outstanding publishing record of more than one hundred and twenty pieces of work which include more than twenty-five books and over a hundred book chapters and papers in scholarly journals. Professor Mawere has published extensively on poverty and community development, knowledge studies, political anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), environment and agrarian issues, democracy and African states, coloniality, decoloniality and transformation, African philosophy and political systems, culture and heritage studies. Some of his bestselling books are:

Water Use Efficiency‐Based Multiscale Assessment of Ecohydrological Resilience to Ecosystem Shifts Over the Continent of Africa During 1992–2015

“…However, the present study may provide reference information for African countries, inform regional and global environmental ecosystem conservation and protection policy makers in order to take reasonable measures, and practice mechanisms for sustainable ecosystem management under ecohydrological and climate disturbances. For example, drought and wetness intensity that are to susceptible to increase over the earth for the 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming during the preindustrial period may bring about many ecohydroclimatic disturbances on regional and global terrestrial ecosystems which, in turn, will influence many ecosystem shifts in the 21st century (Mawere, 2017;Su et al, 2018). Therefore, if no necessary protection measures and/or regulations applied to these vulnerable ecosystems, it may result in a pronounced ecosystems' failure to tolerate water limited and/or water excess conditions, leading to serious challenges for crop production, carbon sequestration and food security.…”

“…Africa is the world's third largest continent with approximately 30.3 × 10 6 km 2 accounting for 6% of Earth's surface area and 24% of land area (Mawere, 2017). It is the second most populous continent with approximately 1.26 billion people after Asia (approximately 4.5 million people) as of 2017 UN census statistics-UN-DESA (2017).…”