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The Program on African Social Research (https://www.pasiri.org/) The Program on African Social Research (PASR) was founded to center African knowledge production within social science research globally. We do this by creating opportunities for junior scholars based in Africa. By providing access to international networks and building networks across the African continent, we work to help junior scholars improve and disseminate their research, and to create opportunities for mentoring and meaningful collaborative possibilities. PASR is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is based at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York.

 

 

 

The Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC), established in 2020, began operations in 2022 and was officially inaugurated in 2023. It is a private, non-profit, public-facing institution dedicated to artistic research, exhibitions, and resource development. LuCAC promotes ongoing decolonization, fostering both formal and informal artistic research and experimentation. Through its programs, LuCAC amplifies the voices of artists and communities, enabling them to express themselves, participate in public life, and challenge structures of power. With a commitment to innovation and inclusivity, LuCAC operates at the intersection of art, culture, and research, recognizing the evolving nature of societies shaped by migration and globalization. By providing a platform for radical knowledge production and artistic exploration, the Centre strengthens the visibility of Zambian contemporary art while fostering a culture of accountability, representation, and transformative engagement in the creative sector.

 

 

 

African Social Research is an open access publication. Authors retain all rights to their contributions. To cite: The Political Economy of Inequality in Africa, African Social Research 6 (Spring 2025).

Chapters 

Please read the individual chapters below by clicking on the title of the chapter(s):

Chapter 1

New Directions in the Study of Inequality in Africa

 

Grieve Chelwa

Associate Professor of Political Economy

The Africa Institute

Sharjah, UAE

grievechelwa@gmail.com

Chapter 2

Why women earn less: The role of occupational segregation in Kenya’s gender pay differential

 

Author: Wycliffe Obwori Alwago

Doctoral School in Economics

University of Szeged, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

abwogamartin@gmail.com

Chapter 4

Feminine Intra-inequalities: The meeting and Divergent Points of Lagos Women Plastic Collectors.

Nnanwube Ebere Florence

Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan,

Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria

Ennanwube2932@stu.ui.edu.ng

Chapter 7

The Absence of Representation of History and Heritage of Malawian Indian Community in Museums of Malawi. 

Mwayi Lusaka

University of South Africa, Department of History                                           lusakamwayi@gmail.com

Chapter 8

Chapter 11

From Empire to Aid

Analysing the persistence of colonial legacies in foreign aid to Africa

 

By Swetha Ramachandran

PhD Candidate

The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID)

swetha.ramachandran@graduateinstitute.ch

Chapter 12

Margins of the Marginalized: The Occupationally Casted Women Potters of Horn of Africa.

 

Tirsit Yetbarek Seme

PhD Student and Head of Somaliland Centre for African Studies

Tirsityetbarek3@gmail.com

Chapter 13

STEEPED IN INEQUALITY: UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN STORIES OF MOZAMBICAN EARN AND LEARN STUDENTS IN ZIMBABWE’S TEA ESTATES, 1980-2013

 

Chikwava Sigauke

University of Zimbabwe, Department of History, Heritage, and Knowledge Systems

Email: sigachikwava@gmail.com 

Chapter 15

Legal Homophobia on Sexual Minorities: The Illegality of Common Law

 

Tawonga Kayira, LLM/MPhil in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa (SRRA),

University of Pretoria

tawongakayira@yahoo.co.uk

PASR:

The Program on African Social Research aims to provide opportunities for feedback, networking, mentoring, and meaningful collaborative possibilities between junior scholars based in Africa and established scholars based both within and outside of the continent, especially those with diasporic and other ties to African countries. PASR is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is based at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York.

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