Author: Anne ThurstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Smallholder Agriculture in Colonial Kenya
Author: Anne ThurstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Underdevelopment in Kenya
Author: Colin LeysPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Author: Walter RodneyPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788731204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
“A call to arms in the class struggle for racial equity”—the hugely influential work of political theory and history, now powerfully introduced by Angela Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books). This legendary classic on European colonialism in Africa stands alongside C.L.R. James’ Black Jacobins, Eric Williams’ Capitalism & Slavery, and W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Rural Development in Tropical Africa
Author: Judith HeyerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134905318X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Agricultural Development in Kenya
Author: The Idea of Development in Africa
Author: Corrie DeckerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710369X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
The Second Colonial Occupation
Author: Bekeh Utietiang UkelinaPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498529259
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
In this insightful book, development historian Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, he argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this colony created social and economic deficiencies that have left a legacy of underdevelopment. Ukelina outlines the processes that led to the 1945 Nigerian Development Plan and the evolution of colonial agricultural policy and practices in Nigeria. He argues that a few key factors led to the failure of development in the late colonial period: the imperial and neocolonial imperative to exploit African resources and people, poor planning as a result of this imperative, and the racial ideologies of the colonial state that resulted in a total rejection of local African experience and knowledge in favor of Western ‘experts.’ The Second Colonial Occupation uncovers and analyzes the short and long term impact of colonialism. It reveals that though colonial rule was promoted as a benevolent mission, at heart, it was a system that guaranteed that Africans continuously paid for their own exploitation. Ukelina argues that ‘postcolonial’ Africa will continue to face development challenges unless it breaks free from the intellectual relics of colonial rule and the economic shackles of neocolonialism.
Taxing Colonial Africa
Author: Leigh GardnerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199661529
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This is the first detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa.
The Green Belt Movement
Author: Wangari MaathaiPublisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 9781590560402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Wangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Author: Ian Q. Orchardson