Africa's Development Thinking Since Independence

Africa's Development Thinking Since Independence

Author: Africa Institute of South Africa

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13:

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Newly revised and updated, this edition brings together, in a single volume, a series of public documents pertaining to Africa's development since independence. These are various resolutions, declarations, treaties, and plans of action, which represent key moments and turning points in recent history from across the African continent. In its entirety, the collection of documents reflects how development ideas and processes have evolved from the early sixties to the present day. Some of the documents included are: the Charter of the OAU; the Monrovia Declaration of Commitment of the OAU Heads of State and Government; the Lagos Plan of Action; the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Banjul charter); the UN Declaration on the Critical Economic Situation in Africa; the African Common Position on Africa's External Debt Crisis; the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community; the Cairo Plan of Action; The Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Co- operation in Africa; and The New Partnership for Africa's Development. The volume also includes an introduction on the wider context of the documents by Eddie Maloka, the director of the Africa Institute of South Africa; and a critical essay on Africa's development thinking by an economic and foreign policy analyst.


Africa's Development Impasse

Africa's Development Impasse

Author: Doctor Stefan Andreasson

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 184813603X

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Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.


Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

Author: Emmanuel Akyeampong

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1107041155

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Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.


Innovating Development Strategies in Africa

Innovating Development Strategies in Africa

Author: Landry Signé

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1107173078

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This book examines postcolonial strategies for economic development in Africa from the 1960s to the present day.


The State and Capitalist Development in Africa

The State and Capitalist Development in Africa

Author: Julius Edo Nyang'oro

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1989-07-21

Total Pages: 200

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This work goes beyond recent analyses of African development to present a post-dependency framework for the study of Africa's political economy. The author argues that, although the contributions of the modernization and dependency frameworks cannot be ignored, recent economic and political adjustments and realignments require a more penetrating analysis--one that takes into account such factors as the overall growth of the economy, the role of the state, parallel markets, and capitalist development in general. An ideal supplemental text for courses in comparative politics, international political economy, and African development, the volume is comparative in approach and covers the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The author begins by discussing the various dimensions--agricultural, environmental, industrial, population--of Africa's continuing crisis condition. He then closely examines the African development experience since independence and explores the evolution of development theory and its application to Africa. Arguing for a new mode of production approach to the study of Africa's political economy, the author attempts to determine whether Africa is indeed predominantly capitalist and raises questions regarding prevailing theories of capitalist development. Finally, Nyang'oro looks at the state in Africa, pointing to some fundamental weaknesses that contribute to the ongoing crisis and offering a perceptive assessment of development options open to Africa.


Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial

Africa Beyond the Post-Colonial

Author: Alfred B. Zack-Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1351960431

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The poor economic performance of some African countries since independence has been a major concern to both African leaders and policy makers. This volume, which draws together contributions from academics based in Africa and its diaspora, situates the continent within its historic and socio-political background: from the 1960s, the decade of independence, through to its development outlook as the new millennium unfolds. It examines a broad range of contemporary issues -- from development and culture to linguistics and is unique in identifying and examining issues that are common both to Africa and the diaspora.


State Legitimacy and Development in Africa

State Legitimacy and Development in Africa

Author: Pierre Englebert

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781588261311

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Englebert argues that differences in economic performance both within Africa and across the developing world can be linked to differences in historical state legitimacy.


Political Domination in Africa

Political Domination in Africa

Author: Patrick Chabal

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986-10-09

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521311489

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This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain, France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, have been involved in the process of rethinking African politics. They present here the outline of a new approach, grounded in universal political theory rather than on theories of Third World political development. This seeks to integrate the history of Africa (from pre- to post-colonial) with concepts of political theory as they have been applied historically to the analysis of Europe and America. The book addresses a wide audience: students of African history and politics, of Third World development and of political theory.


From Crisis to Renewal

From Crisis to Renewal

Author: Kempe R. Hope

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9789004125315

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This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution, implementation, and impact of development policy and management in Africa covering the post-independence period. It traces the emergence of and factors contributing to the continent's development crisis and the efforts and results of renewal strategies.


The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development

The Palgrave Handbook of African Politics, Governance and Development

Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 917

ISBN-13: 134995232X

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This handbook constitutes a single collection of well researched articles and essays on African politics, governance and development from the pre-colonial through colonial to the post-colonial eras. Over the course of these interconnected periods, African politics have evolved with varied experiences across different parts of the continent. As politics is embedded both in the economy and the society, Africa has witnessed some changes in politics, economics, demography and its relations with the world in ways that requires in-depth analysis. This work provides an opportunity for old and new scholars to engage in the universe of the debate around African politics, governance and development and will serve as a ready reference material for students, researchers, policy makers and investors that are concerned with these issues.