Over the past forty years there has been a revolution in South African historiography, yet no broadly interpretative essay on South African history has appeared. The essays in this volume aim to provide such a reinterpretation for the nineteenth century before the discovery of minerals transformed the nature of South African societies, and help to shed light on earlier phases of South Africa's …
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney is a groundbreaking study of the historical, political, and economic processes that shaped Africa’s underdevelopment. Rodney argues that European colonialism and global capitalism systematically extracted wealth from the continent, creating long-term structural inequalities. Drawing from historical evidence and economic analysis, the book demo…
René Dumont and Marie-France Mottin's book, "L'Afrique Étranglée," examines the economic, political, and social crises that plagued various African countries after independence. Through case studies of Zambia, Tanzania, Senegal, Côte-d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, and Cap-Vert, the authors outline how colonialism, mismanagement, economic dependency, and flawed development policies led to stagnant…
This book is a collection of essays examining the impact of industrialization on social change in South Africa between 1870 and 1930. Edited by Shula Marks and Richard Rathbone, it examines the formation of African social classes, cultural developments, and changes in social consciousness resulting from modernization and capitalism. It highlights how economic and political dynamics shaped socia…
Over the past forty years there has been a revolution in South African historiography, yet no broadly interpretative essay on South African history has appeared. The essays in this volume aim to provide such a reinterpretation for the nineteenth century before the discovery of minerals transformed the nature of South African societies, and help to shed light on earlier phases of South Africa's …
How South Africa Works reviews the Country's major economic achievments over the past two decades. Through numerous interviews with politician, business leaders and analyst, it examines the challenges and opportunities across key prosuctive sector including agriculture, manufacturing, services and mining ilustrative of the policy challenges that leaders face.
Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable: - The rise of democracy brought on by the end of the Cold War and apartheid - Stronger economic management - The end of the debt crisis and a more cons…
The African economic outlook is a joint project between the African development bank and the OECD development centre. The project, initially funded by the European commission, combines the expertise accumulated by the OECD, which produces the OECD economic outlook twice a year, and the knowledge of the African development Bank on African economies. The objective is to review annually the recent…
Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of ’dynamic’ entanglements - new and micro-regionalism, informal cross-border …