African Development Strategies: Whither NEPAD?
Africa’s post-colonial era is regrettably a picture of diverse economic disabilities. These problems are attributable to a number of factors. Very prominent among them are the marginalization of the continent in the global economic system, the regime of p
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Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba • Toyin Falola Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
Editors Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute University of South Africa Pretoria, South Africa
Toyin Falola Department of History University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA
Institute of African Studies Carleton University Ottawa, ON, Canada
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This Handbook is dedicated to the memory of late Professor Thandika Mkandawire for his outstanding scholarship on Development in Africa
Preface
The political economy of Africa manifests various historical and contemporary characteristics which show continuity and disjuncture. While the continuity is seeing in th
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