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Africa's Long Road Since Independence - The Many Histories of a Continent (Paperback)
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'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's
College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has
not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined,
converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of
decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but
also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency.
This new view of those histories looks in particular at the
relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal
structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing
development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before
the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also
looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and
opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of
the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development
against the global economic straitjacket into which they were
strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of
imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist
system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial
and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is
discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African
peoples, political movements and leaders.
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