AFRICA IN CRISIS by Zack-Williams, Tunde ISBN 0745316476
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This collection provides an overview of Africa at the millennium. It explores important new social, political and economic trends that are emerging in the wake of post-colonial development.
The continent of Africa is in crisis, yet it was not always so. Following the decade of independence in the 1960s there was widespread optimism, but this almost totally disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s. As the millennium unfolds, Africa is faced with seemingly insurmountable problems: economic marginalisation from the global market; a major health crisis stemming from the destructive effects of malaria and HIV/AIDS; and chronic political instability after a string of devastating civil wars. This book argues that the decline in Africa's fortunes as a whole can be dated from the oil crisis and subsequent economic unrest of the late 1970s. Economic mismanagement and political authoritarianism sowed the seeds for the devastating problems of the following decades. International financial institutions incurred structural adjustment programmes over most of sub-Saharan Africa that led to the wholesale privatisation of state functions. This lucidly detailed account pinpoints the root causes of the crisis, and asks what lies ahead for the continent in the future. Chapters cover key issues in African development, the pitfalls of democratisation, political economy and international relations.
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AFRICA IN CRISIS
[edit] Author
Zack-Williams, Tunde
[edit] ISBN
0745316476
[edit] Published
11/01/2002
[edit] Publisher
Pluto Press
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paperback
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17.99 (GBP)
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