EAN: 9783319864303

CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY NEO-CO...

Langan reclaims neo-colonialism as an analytical force for making sense of the failure of
'development' strategies in many African states in an era of free market globalisation.
Eschewing polemics and critically engaging the work of Ghana's first President - Kwame Nkrumah
- the book offers a rigorous assessment of the concept of neo-colonialism. It then demonstrates
how neo-colonialism remains an impediment to genuine empirical sovereignty and poverty
reduction in Africa today. It does this through examination of corporate interventions  Western
aid-giving  the emergence of 'new' donors such as China  EU-Africa trade regimes  the
securitisation of development  and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the
chapters  it becomes clear that the current challenges of African development cannot be solely
pinned on so-called neo-patrimonial elites. Instead it becomes imperative to fully acknowledge
and interrogate  corporate and donor interventions which lock many poorer countriesinto
neo-colonial patterns of trade and production. The book provides an original contribution to
studies of African political economy  demonstrating the on-going relevance of the concept of
neo-colonialism  and reclaiming it for scholarly analysis in a global era.

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