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The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy

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Editors:
  1. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

    1. Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
      Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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  2. Toyin Falola

    1. Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

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  • Assesses the evolution and current state of African political economy
  • Approaches African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions
  • Encompasses all regions of Africa, incl. Southern, West, East, North, Central Africa and African Islands
  • Presents multidisciplinary perspectives from Politics, International Relations, Development Studies, Economics, History and Sociology
  • Adopts both historical and sectoral approaches that are absent in other Handbooks
  • Accessibly written for both academics as well as practitioners from African Development Bank et al

Part of the book series: Palgrave Handbooks in IPE (PHIPE)

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Table of contents (58 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. The Political Economy of Africa: Connecting the Past to the Present and Future of Development in Africa

    • Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Toyin Falola
    Pages 1-28

  3. Historical and Theoretical Foundations of African Political Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Left, Right and Centre: On Regrounding a Progressive Political Economy of Africa for the Twenty-First Century

      • John S. Saul
      Pages 31-43

    3. Four Journeys of Capital and Their Consequences for Africa

      • Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
      Pages 45-61

    4. History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice

      • Madalitso Zililo Phiri
      Pages 63-81

    5. African Political Economy and Its Transformation into Capitalism

      • Abdullahi Sule-Kano
      Pages 83-92

    6. The Political Economy of Africa

      • Ian Taylor
      Pages 93-113

    7. Streets and Boardrooms as Hegemonic Spaces in Shaping Political Economy in Africa

      • Dung Pam Sha
      Pages 115-139

    8. Contextualizing the State Structure Requisite for Africa’s Development

      • N. Oluwafemi Mimiko
      Pages 141-168

  4. African Political Economy Thinkers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa

      • Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah
      Pages 171-192

    3. Thomas Sankara and a Political Economy of Happiness

      • Amber Murrey
      Pages 193-208

    4. The Political Economy of Claude Ake

      • Sylvester Odion Akhaine
      Pages 209-220

    5. A Historical Political Economy Approach to Africa’s Economic Development: A Critique of Thandika Mkandawire’s Interests and Incentives, Ideas, and Institutions

      • Marcel Nagar
      Pages 221-243

    6. Amilcar Cabral, the Theory as a Weapon of the Oppressed and Africa’s Predicament Today

      • Siphamandla Zondi
      Pages 245-264

    7. Adebayo Adedeji: Africa’s Foremost Prophet of Regional Integration

      • Adekeye Adebajo
      Pages 265-278

    8. Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South

      • Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
      Pages 279-293

    9. Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation

      • William Mpofu
      Pages 295-313

    10. The Political Economy of the African Crisis Through the Lenses of Bade Onimode

      • Adewale Aderemi, Tobi Oshodi, Samson Oyefolu
      Pages 315-325
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About this book

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and complex. Chapters in the book discuss how domestic and international political economic forces have shaped and continue to shape development outcomes on the continent. Contributors also provoke new thinking on theories and policies to better position the continent’s economy to be a critical global force. The uniqueness of the handbook lies in linking theory and praxis with the past, future, and various dimensions of the political economy of Africa. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

  • Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

  • Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Toyin Falola

About the editors

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Associate Professor at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa, South Africa, and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Canada. 


Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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