Development Strategies in Africa

Aguibou Yan Yansané is Professor of Political Economy in the Departments of International Relations and African and African-American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Decolonization and Dependency: Problems of Development of African Societies (Greenwood, 1980) and Decolonization of West African States (1984), as well as many essays in published books and journals. A companion volume, Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa, is to be published by Greenwood in 1994.

• preface Introduction: The Development of Development Thinking in Africa: The Theory Revisited by A.Y. Yansane Global Perspectives Evaluation of Development Strategies: Prospects for Growth in Africa in the 1990's by Ismail Serageldin Traditional Institutions and Economic Development: The Mossi Naam by Elliott P. Skinner Afrostroika and Planned Governance: Economic Adjustment and political Engineering by Ali Mazrui The Challenge of a Holistic Vision: Culture, Empowerment and the Development Paradigm by Ismail Serageldin Comments of Discussants Growth, Development, and Social Dimension of Structural Adjustment Fund Supported Adjustment Programs and the Poor by Peter Heller The Social Dimensions of Adjustment in Africa by the World Bank's Social Dimensions of Adjustment Unit, Washington, D.C. Comments of Discussants Participation, Pluralism, and Pervasive Poverty: Better Governance and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Participation, Pluralism and Pervasive Poverty: Better Governance and Human Development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) by Reginald Herbold Green Problems and Projections in Political and Economic Development and the Impact of International Relations Africa in an Emerging World by His Excellency, Professor Ibrahim Gambari African Political Development: Beyond the Cold War by Samuel C. Nolutshungu Comments of Discussants Conclusion by A.Y. Yansane Selected Bibliography Index