Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Africa in Crisis

New Challenges and Possibilities

Av Tunde Zack-Williams, Diane Frost, Alex Thomson

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The continent of Africa is in crisis, yet it was not always so. Following the decade of independence in the 1960s there was widespread optimism, but this almost totally disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s. Africa is faced with seemingly insurmountable problems: economic marginalisation from the global market, a major health crisis stemming from the destructive effects of malaria and HIV/AIDS and chronic political instability after a string of devastating civil wars. This book argues that the decline in Africa's fortunes as a whole can be dated from the oil crisis and subsequent economic unrest of the late 1970s. Economic mismanagement and political authoritarianism sowed the seeds for the devastating problems of the following decades. International financial institutions incurred structural adjustment programmes over most of sub-Saharan Africa that led to the wholesale privatisation of state functions. This lucidly detailed account pinpoints the root causes of the crisis, and asks what lies ahead for the continent in the future. Chapters cover key issues in African development, the pitfalls of democratisation, political economy and international relations.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2002-01-20
Mått: 135 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt: 361 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Förlag: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745316475

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Tunde Zack-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire. He was President of the UK African Studies Association from 2006 to 2008. He is the author of When the State Fails: Studies on Intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War (Pluto, 2011), The Quest for Sustainable Peace: The 2007 Sierra Leone Elections (2008), co-editor of Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities (Pluto, 2002) and African Mosaic: Political, Social, Economic and Technological Development in the New Millennium (2009). He is a handling editor of the Review of African Political Economy and a member of the Africa Panel of the British Academy.Diane Frost is the co-editor of Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities (Pluto, 2002).Alex Thomson is the co-editor of Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities (Pluto, 2002).

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'Succeeds in highlighting the point that Africa's crisis is not natural or inevitable, but a product of human history; a history forged in the complex interaction between locals and foreigners, states and societies, and domestic traditions and imperial pressures'

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