Reginald Cline-Cole, Elsbeth Robson

• Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development in West African WorldsReginald Cline-Cole West Africa’s Political Economy in the 21st Century: Retrospect and ProspectAdebayo Olukoshi Portraying West Africa's Children: Moral Panics and GlobalisationElsbeth Robson Fictional Worlds, Symbolism and Struggles of (Under-)Development? KolawoleOmotoso’s ‘The Combat’Abioseh Michael Porter Urban Bias, Redistribution, and State Collapse: The Lessons of Sierra LeoneJ. Barry Riddell Expanding the frontiers of West African Integration: Economic and Security RegionalismDavid J Francis Transformations in Regional Agriculture and Family FarmingCamilla Toulmin and Bara Guèye The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: ‘Social capital’ and targeted development in West Africa Fergus Lyon and Gina Porter Changing Time, Changing Times: Work, Time and Space in Britain and West Africa in the 19th and 20th CenturiesKen Swindell State-Building, National Integration, Gender and Economic Development in Emergent Regional DemocraciesJimmy D. Kandeh and Joyce A. Kannan Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina FasoSimon P.J.Batterbury Conclusion: West African futures?Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson