Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Political Economy of Africa: Connecting the Past to the Present and Future of Development in Africa
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   Chapter 2 Left, Right and Centre: On Regrounding a Progressive Political Economy of Africa for the Twenty-First Century
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   Chapter 3 Four Journeys of Capital and Their Consequences for Africa
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   Chapter 4 History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice
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   Chapter 5 African Political Economy and Its Transformation into Capitalism
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   Chapter 6 The Political Economy of Africa
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   Chapter 7 Streets and Boardrooms as Hegemonic Spaces in Shaping Political Economy in Africa
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   Chapter 8 Contextualizing the State Structure Requisite for Africa’s Development
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    Chapter 9 Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa
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    Chapter 10 Thomas Sankara and a Political Economy of Happiness
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    Chapter 11 The Political Economy of Claude Ake
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    Chapter 12 A Historical Political Economy Approach to Africa’s Economic Development: A Critique of Thandika Mkandawire’s Interests and Incentives, Ideas, and Institutions
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    Chapter 13 Amilcar Cabral, the Theory as a Weapon of the Oppressed and Africa’s Predicament Today
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    Chapter 14 Adebayo Adedeji: Africa’s Foremost Prophet of Regional Integration
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    Chapter 15 Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South
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    Chapter 16 Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation
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    Chapter 17 The Political Economy of the African Crisis Through the Lenses of Bade Onimode
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    Chapter 18 Developmental State and the Political Economy of Local Government in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa
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    Chapter 19 Circuits of Production and Channels of State: Pastoralists and the State in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1910–1958)
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    Chapter 20 The Political Economy of Globalization and Employment Returns to Youth in Uganda
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    Chapter 21 Neoliberalism, Economic Crisis, and Domestic Coffee Marketing in Tanzania
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    Chapter 22 Analysis of Community-Driven Human Security Interventions in Africa: The Case of the Northern Region of Ghana
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    Chapter 23 A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of ‘Illegal’ Small-Scale Mining in Ghana
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    Chapter 24 Fertilizer Policy, Governance, and Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria: A Review of Political Economy from Historical Perspectives
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    Chapter 25 Deindustrialization and Entrepreneur Dynamism: An Assessment of the Replacement of Industrial Clusters with Event Centers in Lagos, Nigeria
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    Chapter 26 Economic Reforms in Africa: A Critical Appraisal
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    Chapter 27 African Development Strategies: Whither NEPAD?
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    Chapter 28 The Global Financial Crisis and the African Economy
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    Chapter 29 Impact of Public Debt and Governance on Economic Growth in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries
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    Chapter 30 China’s Development Finance to Africa and the Spectre of Debt Distress
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    Chapter 31 Euro-Africa Relations and Development in a Multi-Polar World: Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspectives
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    Chapter 32 Engendering Development: Any Lessons for Africa from the BRICS Countries?
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    Chapter 33 Developmental State and Development Alternatives: Lessons from Cuba
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    Chapter 34 The State, Resources and Developmental Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 35 Sectoral Approaches to African Political Economy
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    Chapter 36 Natural Resources and African Economies: Asset or Liability?
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    Chapter 37 Natural Resources and African Economies: Turning Liability to Asset
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    Chapter 38 Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development?
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    Chapter 39 The Question of Gender and Human Security in Africa’s Extractive Industries
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    Chapter 40 The Political Economy of Industrialization in Africa
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    Chapter 41 Industrialization in Africa in the Era of Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects with a Focus on Manufacturing
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    Chapter 42 A Critical Appraisal of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Political Economy Approach
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    Chapter 43 The Political Economy of Micro-Credit in Africa
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    Chapter 44 Accounting for Choices and Consequences: Examining the Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa
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    Chapter 45 Public Health and Political Economy of Development in Africa
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    Chapter 46 “Afro-Eco-Entrepreneurship” Development in Africa: Utilizing Green Culture Advocacy as a Synthesis for Political-Ecological Justice Activism
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    Chapter 47 Counting Lives: Colonial Institutions and Africa’s Prevailing Conflicts
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    Chapter 48 The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Twenty-First-Century Africa: A Critical Evaluation
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    Chapter 49 The Political Economy of External Intervention in Africa’s Security
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    Chapter 50 The Political Economy of Insecurity in Africa: Focus on North East, Nigeria
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    Chapter 51 Mediating Nation-Building in Post-colonial Africa: Addressing the Security and Development Nexus on the Continent
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    Chapter 52 The Languages and Grammar of Regionalism
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    Chapter 53 Regional Integration and Challenges of Implementation in Africa: Some Missing Gaps
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    Chapter 54 African Regional Integration and Pan-Africanism: The Case of African Migrants’ Welfare in Africa
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    Chapter 55 The Political Economy of State-Sponsored Repatriation of Economic Migrants in Africa
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    Chapter 56 Southern Africa’s Regionalism Driven by Realism
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    Chapter 57 Development Without Borders? Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa
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    Chapter 58 The Relevance of the European Union Integration Experience to the African Union’s Integration Process