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The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa

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Editors:
  1. Véronique Dimier

    1. Faculty of Philosophy and Social Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

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  2. Sarah Stockwell

    1. Department of History, King’s College London, London, UK

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  • Explores the role played by companies of former colonial states in both the economies and development policies of the newly independent African countries and in the development policies of the former colonial powers
  • Chapters show how foreign enterprise was not simply challenged by the new international landscape, but benefitted from the opportunities it offered, especially development aid
  • Advances research in the history of business, development and colonialism by focusing on the post-colonial period

Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: New Directions in the History of Business and Development in Post-Colonial Africa

    • Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell
    Pages 1-35

  3. Business, the Commonwealth and the Rhetoric of Development: The Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 1945–1974

    • Andrew Dilley
    Pages 37-67

  4. Adapting to Independence: The East Africa Association, Post-Colonial Business Networks and Economic Development

    • Poppy Cullen
    Pages 69-97

  5. Belgian Firms, Development Plans and the Independence of the Belgian Congo

    • Charlotte Strick
    Pages 99-126

  6. Oil Companies as Agents of Post-Colonial Relations: France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara

    • Marta Musso
    Pages 127-155

  7. A Partner in Progress? Shell-BP’s Development Role in Nigeria During the Transition to Independence

    • Chris Minton
    Pages 157-182

  8. The ‘Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies’: The Commonwealth Development Corporation and British Business in Post-Colonial Africa

    • Sarah Stockwell
    Pages 183-212

  9. Decolonising Finance, Africanising Banking

    • François Pacquement
    Pages 213-239

  10. The European Development Fund, a Dowry for French Companies?

    • Véronique Dimier
    Pages 241-274

  11. Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975

    • Abou B. Bamba
    Pages 275-303

  12. European Private Sector and African Firms in EU-ACP Development Cooperation (1975–2000)

    • Olivier Van den Bossche
    Pages 305-332

  13. Afterword

    • Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell
    Pages 333-341

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 343-360
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About this book

This collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa.  A number of contributors examine the involvement of European companies (most notably those of former colonial powers) in development in various African states at the end of empire and in the early post-colonial era. They explore how businesses were not just challenged by the new international landscape but benefited from the opportunities it offered, particularly those provided by development aid. Other contributors focus on the development agencies of the departing colonial powers to consider how far these served to promote the interests of European companies. Together these case studies constitute an important contribution to our understanding of both business and development in post-colonial Africa, redressing an imbalance in existing histories of both business and development whichfocus predominantly on the colonial period. This volume breaks new ground as one of the very first to bring the study of foreign companies and development aid into the same frame of analysis

         

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Philosophy and Social Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Véronique Dimier

  • Department of History, King’s College London, London, UK

    Sarah Stockwell

About the editors

Véronique Dimier is Professor at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. She held the Chaire Gutenberg in 2015 at SAGE, the Research Centre on Society, Stakeholders and Government in Europe, at the University of Strasbourg. She has worked extensively on French and British colonial administrations and on the second career of French colonial officials, most notably in the development field.  She is the author of Le Gouvernement des Colonies, Regards Croisés Franco-Britanniques (2004), and The Invention of a European Development Bureaucracy: Recycling Empire (2014).



Sarah Stockwell  is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at King’s College London, UK. Her research focuses on the history of British decolonisation, especially in Africa. Her publications include The Business of Decolonization. British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast (2000), The British End of the British Empire (2018), and, as editor, The British Empire. Themes and Perspectives (2007) and, with L.J. Butler, The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization (2013).
             

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