Afriques en Lutte

Jerven, Morten (2015) Africa – Why Economists Get It Wrong, London : Zed Books

Andy Wynne — 2015-11-27T04:20:00Z

This book provide a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. He argues that, for most of the past two decades, mainstream economists have been trying to explain the chronic failure of economic growth in Africa. In contrast, during the 1950s, the 1960s and even into the 1970s many African economies actually grew rapidly, but this development was subsequently overshadowed by the economic problems of the 1980s and 1990s.
In recent years, this pessimism has changed to the (…)

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A history of popular struggle in Africa

Andy Wynne — 2014-05-14T03:07:00Z

African Struggles Today seeks to explain the key role that mass social movements have played in the history of Africa over the last three quarters of a century. Their struggles show that there is hope in the future of Africa, even if, “despite their creative and often heroic efforts, African movements have often failed to achieve their aims” (p237). So this book is the story of “the puzzled, disillusioned, well-organised and angry men and women who continue the struggle to transform their (…)

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