This Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African st

Interventionism—the manipulation of the internal politics of one country by another—has long been a feature of international relations. The practice shows n

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphas

The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s econo