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Africa's Long Road Since Independence
- The Many Histories of a Continent
Engelsk Paperback
Africa's Long Road Since Independence
- The Many Histories of a Continent
Engelsk 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9780141984094
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0141984090
Udg. Dato:
26 jan 2017
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
132mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
26 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
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