The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9783030389246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 1106 str.

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba; Toyin Falola

Spis treści

1. The Political Economy of Africa: Connecting the Past to the Present and Future of Development in Africa

Part I Historical and Theoretical Foundations of African Political Economy

2. Left, Right and Centre: On Regrounding a Progressive Political Economy of Africa for the Twenty-First Century

3. Four Journeys of Capital and Their Consequences for Africa

4. History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice

5. African Political Economy and Its Transformation into Capitalism

6. The Political Economy of Africa

7. Streets and Boardrooms as Hegemonic Spaces in Shaping Political Economy in Africa

8. Contextualizing the State Structure Requisite for Africa’s Development

Part II African Political Economy Thinkers

9. Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa

10. Thomas Sankara and a Political Economy of Happiness

11. The Political Economy of Claude Ake

12. A Historical Political Economy Approach to Africa’s Economic Development: A Critique of Thandika Mkandawire’s Interests and Incentives, Ideas, and Institutions

13. Amilcar Cabral, the Theory as a Weapon of the Oppressed and Africa’s Predicament Today

14. Adebayo Adedeji: Africa’s Foremost Prophet of Regional Integration

15. Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South

16. Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation

17. The Political Economy of the African Crisis Through the Lenses of Bade Onimode

Part III The State and the Political Economy of Development in Africa

18. Developmental State and the Political Economy of Local Government in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa

19. Circuits of Production and Channels of State: Pastoralists and the State in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1910–1958)

20. The Political Economy of Globalization and Employment Returns to Youth in Uganda

21. Neoliberalism, Economic Crisis, and Domestic Coffee Marketing in Tanzania

22. Analysis of Community-Driven Human Security Interventions in Africa: The Case of the Northern Region of Ghana

23. A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of ‘Illegal’ Small-Scale Mining in Ghana

24. Fertilizer Policy, Governance, and Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria: A Review of Political Economy from Historical Perspectives

25. Deindustrialization and Entrepreneur Dynamism: An Assessment of the Replacement of Industrial Clusters with Event Centers in Lagos, Nigeria

Part IV Political Economy of Reforms in Africa

26. Economic Reforms in Africa: A Critical Appraisal

27. African Development Strategies: Whither NEPAD?

28. The Global Financial Crisis and the African Economy

29. Impact of Public Debt and Governance on Economic Growth in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries

30. China’s Development Finance to Africa and the Spectre of Debt Distress

31. Euro-Africa Relations and Development in a Multi-Polar World: Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspectives

32. Engendering Development: Any Lessons for Africa from the BRICS Countries?

33. Developmental State and Development Alternatives: Lessons from Cuba

34. The State, Resources and Developmental Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part V Sectoral Approaches to Africa Political Economy

35. Sectoral Approaches to African Political Economy

36. Natural Resources and African Economies: Asset or Liability?

37. Natural Resources and African Economies: Turning Liability to Asset

38. Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development?

39. The Question of Gender and Human Security in Africa’s Extractive Industries

40. The Political Economy of Industrialization in Africa

41. Industrialization in Africa in the Era of Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects with a Focus on Manufacturing

42. A Critical Appraisal of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Political Economy Approach

43. The Political Economy of Micro-Credit in Africa

44. Accounting for Choices and Consequences: Examining the Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa

45. Public Health and Political Economy of Development in Africa

46. “Afro-Eco-Entrepreneurship” Development in Africa: Utilizing Green Culture Advocacy as a Synthesis for Political-Ecological Justice Activism

Part VI Security and Political Economy of Africa

47. Counting Lives: Colonial Institutions and Africa’s Prevailing Conflicts

48. The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Twenty-First-Century Africa: A Critical Evaluation

49. The Political Economy of External Intervention in Africa’s Security

50. The Political Economy of Insecurity in Africa: Focus on North East, Nigeria

51. Mediating Nation-Building in Post-colonial Africa: Addressing the Security and Development Nexus on the Continent

Part VII Regional Integration and Africa Political Economy

52. The Languages and Grammar of Regionalism

53. Regional Integration and Challenges of Implementation in Africa: Some Missing Gaps

54. African Regional Integration and Pan-Africanism: The Case of African Migrants’ Welfare in Africa

55. The Political Economy of State-Sponsored Repatriation of Economic Migrants in Africa

56. Southern Africa’s Regionalism Driven by Realism

57. Development Without Borders? Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa

58. The Relevance of the European Union Integration Experience to the African Union’s Integration Process

O autorze

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Associate Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, South Africa, and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Canada. 

Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Blurb

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and complex. Chapters in the book discuss how domestic and international political economic forces have shaped and continue to shape development outcomes on the continent. Contributors also provoke new thinking on theories and policies to better position the continent’s economy to be a critical global force. The uniqueness of the handbook lies in linking theory and praxis with the past, future, and various dimensions of the political economy of Africa. 

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Associate Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, South Africa, and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Canada. 

Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.