Emergence of African Capitalism
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1349172294
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The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa
Author: Kenneth Omeje
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-07-23
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3030751708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of capitalism that tend to be dominant in the African continent and their governance dimensions. The research explores how and why capitalism has failed in the African context and the feasibility of turning it around. The book meets the demands of diverse audiences in the fields of International Political Economy, Development Economics, Political Science, and African Studies. The author adopts an unconventional narrativist approach that makes the book amenable to general readership.
The Development of Capitalism in Africa
Author: John Sender
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1136856714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.
African Capitalism
Author: Paul T. Kennedy
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1988-09-30
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521319669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1988 book provides an analysis of African capitalism which offers a positive view of its role.
South Africa's War Against Capitalism
Author: Walter Edward Williams
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for students, laypersons, and scholars who seek a deeper understanding of the roots of apartheid in South Africa, this book focuses upon the relationship between apartheid and capitalism. The author argues, in contrast to prevailing views held both in South Africa and the West, that rather than resulting from capitalism, apartheid is the antithesis of capitalism. In short, Williams asserts, the evolution of apartheid can be seen as a struggle against market forces in order to confer privilege and status on South African whites. Williams begins with a brief overview of South African history, the racial and ethnic diversity of its peoples, and the development of thinking about apartheid. He then highlights some of South Africa's legal institutions, particularly its racially discriminatory laws, and traces the historical forces behind racially discriminatory labor law. Subsequent chapters apply standard economic analysis to apartheid in business and the labor market and consider market challenges to apartheid and governmental responses. Finally, Williams summarizes recent changes to apartheid laws and offers a general discussion of the lessons about racial relations that can be drawn from the South African experience.
Electric Capitalism
Author: David A. McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1136567631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies are utterly dependent on it. There are enormous inequalities in electricity access, with industry receiving abundant supplies of cheap power while more than 80 per cent of the continent's population remain off the power grid. Africa is not unique in this respect, but levels of inequality are particularly pronounced here due to the inherent unevenness of 'electric capitalism' on the continent. This book provides an innovative theoretical framework for understanding electricity and capitalism in Africa, followed by a series of case studies that examine different aspects of electricity supply and consumption. The chapters focus primarily on South Africa due to its dominance in the electricity market, but there are important lessons to be learned for the continent as a whole, not least because of the aggressive expansion of South African capital into other parts of Africa to develop and control electricity. Africa is experiencing a renewed scramble for its electricity resources, conjuring up images of a recolonisation of the continent along the power grid. Written by leading academics and activists, Electric Capitalism offers a cutting-edge, yet accessible, overview of one of the most important developments in Africa today - with direct implications for health, gender equity, environmental sustainability and socio-economic justice. From nuclear power through prepaid electricity meters to the massive dam projects taking place in central Africa, an understanding of electricity reforms on the continent helps shape our insights into development debates in Africa in particular and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism more generally.
Africa in the World
Author: Frederick Cooper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-03-24
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0674369319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the Second World War’s end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe’s domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa’s past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity’s mastery of social relations and commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a history in which Africans were both empire-builders and the objects of colonization, and participants in the events that gave rise to global capitalism. Of the many pathways out of empire that African leaders envisioned in the 1940s and 1950s, Cooper asks why they ultimately followed the one that led to the nation-state, a political form whose limitations and dangers were recognized by influential Africans at the time. Cooper takes account of the central fact of Africa’s situation—extreme inequality between Africa and the western world, and extreme inequality within African societies—and considers the implications of this past trajectory for the future. Reflecting on the vast body of research on Africa since Du Bois’s time, Cooper corrects outdated perceptions of a continent often relegated to the margins of world history and integrates its experience into the mainstream of global affairs.
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society
Author: Manning Marable
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780745316871
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The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Author: Richard Sandbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-11-29
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521319614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of economic development, politics and steady state economy in Africa - discusses the disappointments of independence, democracy and the economic recession; explains the failure of capitalism and the post- colonialism economic implications; looks at political systems and the negative impact of personal rule (political leadership) in institutional framework, the economy (incl. Black market) and defence dependence; presents prospects and recommendations. Bibliography, map, statistical tables.
The Development of Capitalism in Africa
Author: John Sender
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1136856722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.
