Horman Chitonge is a senior researcher at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has taught development theory and policy on Africa at various African universities. His research interests include access to water and land, poverty, and alternatives for Africa’s economic growth and transformation.

"Horman Chitonge’s impressive, wide-ranging and multidisciplinary account of Africa’s development challenges orthodox explanations of its position in the world and provides a fresh perspective to aid academics and practitioners, especially from the continent itself, who seek to understand its past and shape its future."Peter Lawrence, Keele University, UK"Chitonge challenges us to understand ‘the challenge itself’ – and that is to cast off the epistemological straitjackets that have constrained our approaches to Africa’s political economy for the past centuries. This book is an essential starting point for that process: read it, and go forward on Chitonge’s new paths."David Moore, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

• 1. In Search of the 'Africa Dummy' 2. The World Bank and IMF in Africa: The Project Lending Era 3. The Bank and IMF in Africa: The SAPs and Beyond 4. Africa's Economic Growth Experience in Empirical Growth Studies 5. The State and Development in Africa 6. The Political Economy of Africa's Economic Growth and Development Experience 7. Africa Rising: Changing Fortunes or another 'False Start'? 8. African Intellectuals and the African Growth and Development Challenges

Horman Chitonge is a senior researcher at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has taught development theory and policy on Africa at various African universities. His research interests include access to water and land, poverty, and alternatives for Africa’s economic growth and transformation.

"Horman Chitonge’s impressive, wide-ranging and multidisciplinary account of Africa’s development challenges orthodox explanations of its position in the world and provides a fresh perspective to aid academics and practitioners, especially from the continent itself, who seek to understand its past and shape its future."Peter Lawrence, Keele University, UK"Chitonge challenges us to understand ‘the challenge itself’ – and that is to cast off the epistemological straitjackets that have constrained our approaches to Africa’s political economy for the past centuries. This book is an essential starting point for that process: read it, and go forward on Chitonge’s new paths."David Moore, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

• 1. In Search of the 'Africa Dummy' 2. The World Bank and IMF in Africa: The Project Lending Era 3. The Bank and IMF in Africa: The SAPs and Beyond 4. Africa's Economic Growth Experience in Empirical Growth Studies 5. The State and Development in Africa 6. The Political Economy of Africa's Economic Growth and Development Experience 7. Africa Rising: Changing Fortunes or another 'False Start'? 8. African Intellectuals and the African Growth and Development Challenges