Impasse, crisis, decline—a grim vocabulary has come to dominate discourse on African
development. From the hope and optimism that prevailed in the 1960s to the unease and …

How Africa was conceived as an idea and integrated into the evolving Euro-North American-
centric modernity is a tale of genealogies of colonialities and African resistance (s) …

The book explores why the last 25 years of African development have proved so
disappointing, not least to the peoples of Africa themselves. It seeks to show how the …

The post-World-War-II period has typically been seen as the beginning of the 'development
era'. As global power relations shifted and nationalist and international pressure to liberalize …

This book focuses on the historical construction of African states, the modes of political
control in the region, and the character of political elites. It examines the nature of political …

Africa's developmental failure has received a lot of schorlarly attention. Scholars, especially
Africanists, have proferred numerous solutions for the continent's crises. These have been …

Africa has celebrated five decades of independence. Yet the continent is neither free nor
developed. Some scholars have argued that contemporary crises and contradictions of …

As liberation from the colonial rule progresses, the political, economic and cultural
dimensions of the continent are analysed. Acknowledging the original irony that it was the …

In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites
has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained development. What …

The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a
task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms …