The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa's
political elite to anchor the continent's development strategies in
neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development
assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin
the relationship between continental governments and the donor
communities of the West and particularly their institutions of
global governance - the International Financial Institutions. Over
time, these policies and programmes have sought to transform the
authority and capacity of the state to effect social, political and
economic change, while opening up the domestic space for
transnational capital and ideas. The outcome is a continent now
more open to international capital, export-oriented and liberal in
its political governance. Has neoliberalism finally arrested under
development in Africa? Bringing together leading researchers and
analysts to examine key questions from a multidisciplinary
perspective, this book involves a fundamental departure from
orthodox analysis which often predicates colonialism as the
referent object. Here, three decades of neoliberalism with its
complex social and economic philosophy are given primacy. With the
changed focus, an elucidation of the relationship between global
development and local changes is examined through a myriad of
pressing contemporary issues to offer a critical multi-disciplinary
appraisal of challenge and change in Africa over the past three
decades.
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