Continental Complexities: A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Africa is a practical introduction to African Studies. This collection provides contextualized information in order to educate, clarify, and illustrate the story of the continent.
The topics have been deliberately chosen to highlight issues that are currently relevant to discourse on Africa. These topics are also commonly covered in Introduction to Africa courses. They include:

- geology and geomorphology
- history
- religion
- social institutions
- gender relations
- literature, drama, theatre...

This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa's renewal and freedom from the whims of foreign interests. These systems, as argued here, involve balancing short-term thinking and immediate gratification with longer-term planning for future generations of Africans and the continent's diaspora. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with development studies in Africa and its diaspora, as it offers plausible solutions to Africa's chronic developmental problems that can only be provided from within Africa, rather than...