Strategies for African Development


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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.







Africa’s Radicalisms and Conservatisms


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This book features essays that untangle, express and discuss issues in and around the intersections of politics, pop-culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge and as they relate to the two concepts of radicalisms and conservatisms in Africa.




Bulletin


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Labor Digests on Countries in Africa


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Labor conditions in the following countries in Africa: Algeria, Angola, Basutoland (Lesotho), Bechuanaland (Botswana), Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Dahomey, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, French Somaliland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Portuguese Guinea, Reunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somali Republic, South Africa, South West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Spanish Sahara, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, United Arab Republic (Egypt), Upper Volta, and Zambia.




Alternative Futures For Africa


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This comprehensive, critical examination of Africa’s future–written by a diverse group of Africans and Africanists–raises many questions and challenges concerning the development and unity of the African continent. Eclectic in range and method, but cohesive in concern, the book identifies and analyzes alternative probabilities in the political, economic, and social spheres and on the national, regional, and international levels. Many of the contributors point toward an unpromising future for Africa unless its development strategy is changed and its inheritance of dependence on the world system overcome.




Towards a Dynamic African Economy


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First Published in 1989. From his vantage point as head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Adedeji discusses the development experience of Africa during the critical 1975–1986 period. The collection not only provides extensive factual material on global and sectoral developments but also critically evaluates the economic performance of the continent and advances ideas on methods for and approaches to ensuring a better future.




Industrialization in West Africa


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First published in 1984, Industrialization in West Africa is an authoritative text on the industrial development efforts, spatial characteristics and related problems of countries comprising the West African region. The book commences with a detailed description of the political and economic background against which the slow and unsteady pace of industrialization in each country can be appreciated. The analysis outlines the resource potential and historical evolution and structural characteristics of modern manufacturing in the region. The final section assesses the spatial characteristics of West African industrialization, the major problems inhibiting industrial development and frustrating efforts towards economic independence by each country. In conclusion the author considers remedial policy options open to West African countries, both individually and in a common market framework. This book is a valuable source material for all students of social science, geography, economics and regional planning.