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Reforming the Malawian Public Sector argues that the new public management model that Malawi, like most African countries, adopted under the influence of donor organisations has not led to the development that it was intended to deliver. The book examines...
This book revisits the perennial challenge that scholars, economists, and politicians have been grappling with since the 1960s. Development, in this book, has been defined in a context that projects it as a multidimensional and complex process which seeks to enhance the...
The relationship between development and historical traditions has pervaded theories of social development since the 19th century. This has been particularly true of the transformation of agrarian societies, as is shown by the great debates that centered on the future...
The Sub-Saharan and Sahelian drought of the 1970s and the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s tragically and dramatically focussed world attention on the gravity of the ecological crisis in Africa.The television brought home the images of an ecologically devastated continent...
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987-89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in...
This book is an interrogation of African studies, its formulations and fetishes, theories and trends, possibilities and pitfalls. As a discursive formation, African studies is, of course, immersed in the contexts and configurations of the western epistemological order....
Zimbabwe : The Political Economy of Transition focuses on the relationship between the imperialist and white settler colonial legacy on the one hand, and the pattern of political and socio-eonomic development in the post-independence era on the other. To what extent and...
Democracy is said to have failed in Africa, four decades into independence few of the nations on the continent can boast a credible democratic government. But the writers in this book put the question differently : What is democracy in Africa? What happens to political...
The aim of this study is to draw attention to the long time-scale of the developments currently taking place in Africa. This has been overshadowed by the brouhaha concerning phenomena that are mainly connected with the present moment (structural adjustment, transitions...
Mounting debt, declining output, falling living standards. These elements are typical of the sub-Saharan African crisis and its failure to initiate self-sustaining development. As the search for an answer has turned Africa into a laboratory for Western intellectuals,...
Establishing, broadening and maintaining democracy in Africa is an issue with world wide implications. On the continent itself, democracy is a vital issue, precisely because the majority of Africans have been reduced to virtual outlaws, with little or no rights in their...
The State, Development and Politics in Ghana is a collection of essays that provide a focussed and serious analysis of the country's political, economic, agrarian and social development within the African continent. Ghana's political rule has encompassed virtually the...
The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations and an influx of new settlers characterized the century. Regional trade links grew...
Economic cooperation among African countries remains one of the major items on the agenda for the development of Africa and the sovereignty of its people. Consequently, problems of regional cooperation and regional integration have always been one of the top areas of...
The unprecedented speed at which change occurs in different countries and in all aspects of people's lives over the last two decades; has madeit imperative to revisit the erection of any kind of barriers across countries' borders. Viewed in the context of ideological,...
Cet ouvrage explore l'évolution des systèmes fonciers dans le bassin du fleuve Niger au Mali. Il analyse les fondements de la tenure foncière et les différentes perturbations culturelles que les systèmes fonciers de cette région a connu depuis le IXe siècle... Malgré la...
Au moment où les États, particulièrement africains sont soumis à des injonctions toujours renouvelées des différents acteurs internationaux, au moment où différentes politiques publiques internationales sectorielles (éducation, environnement, santé, etc.) et globales...
L'histoire économique de l'Afrique des trente dernières années retrace la volonté du continent de passer d'une société traditionnelle à une société moderne. Les stratégies mises en oeuvre pour opérer cette transition ont varié selon les options politiques choisies par...
L'expérience de modernisation de l'Afrique a été largement appuyée dans la période postcoloniale par les institutions de Bretton Woods. Ces expériences vont connaître un échec dès le début des années 80 avec la crise de la dette et la baisse vertigineuse des cours des...
Les indicateurs traditionnels d'incitation économique et d'avantage comparatif (indicateurs INAC) demeurent, près de trente ans après leurs débuts, toujours des outils précieux d'analyse des politiques commerciales.Les principaux indicateurs d'incitation sont le taux de...
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