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Africa Under Neoliberalism

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Africa Under Neoliberalism book

Africa Under Neoliberalism

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Africa Under Neoliberalism book

Edited ByNana Poku, Jim Whitman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 10 October 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565965
Pages 192 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315565965
SubjectsArea Studies, Politics & International Relations
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Poku, N. (Ed.), Whitman, J. (Ed.). (2018). Africa Under Neoliberalism. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315565965

The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa’s political elite to anchor the continent’s development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental governments and the donor communities of the West and particularly their institutions of global governance – the International Financial Institutions. Over time, these policies and programmes have sought to transform the authority and capacity of the state to effect social, political and economic change, while opening up the domestic space for transnational capital and ideas. The outcome is a continent now more open to international capital, export-oriented and liberal in its political governance. Has neoliberalism finally arrested under development in Africa?

Bringing together leading researchers and analysts to examine key questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book involves a fundamental departure from orthodox analysis which often predicates colonialism as the referent object. Here, three decades of neoliberalism with its complex social and economic philosophy are given primacy. With the changed focus, an elucidation of the relationship between global development and local changes is examined through a myriad of pressing contemporary issues to offer a critical multi-disciplinary appraisal of challenge and change in Africa over the past three decades.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

Africa under neoliberalism

ByNana Poku, Jim Whitman

chapter 2|25 pages

Neoliberalism and economic growth in contemporary Africa

ByAugustin Kwasi Fosu, Eric Kehinde Ogunleye

chapter 3|13 pages

As the global commodity super-cycle ends, Africans continue uprising against ‘Africa rising’

ByPatrick Bond

chapter 4|15 pages

Neoliberalism, urbanization and change in Africa

ByPádraig Carmody, Francis Owusu

chapter 5|19 pages

From urban crisis to political opportunity

African slums
ByJeffrey W. Paller

chapter 6|20 pages

The poverty of ‘poverty reduction’

The case of African cotton
ByAdam Sneyd

chapter 7|21 pages

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink (except for a price)

ByLarry A. Swatuk

chapter 8|15 pages

Autocrats and activists

Human rights, democracy and the neoliberal paradox in Nigeria
ByBonny Ibhawoh, Lekan Akinosho

chapter 9|22 pages

Neoliberalism and alternative forms of citizenship

ByAmy S. Patterson
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