Africa And The Global System Of Capital Accumulation

Author : Emmanuel O Oritsejafor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000384586
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation written by Emmanuel O Oritsejafor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation offers a groundbreaking analysis of the strategic role Africa plays in the global capitalist economy. The exploitation of Africa’s rich resources, as well as its labor, make it possible for major world powers to sustain their authority over their own middle-class populations while rewarding African collaborators in leadership positions for subjecting their populations into poverty and desperation. Middle-class obsessions such as computers, mobile phones, cars and the petroleum that fuels them, diamonds, chocolate – all of these products require African resources that are typically obtained by child or slave labor that helps to generate billionaires out of foreign investors while impoverishing most Africans. Oritsejafor and Cooper demonstrate that "primitive accumulation," believed by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx to be a process that precedes capitalism, is actually an integral part of capitalism. They also validate the thesis that capitalism incorporates racism as an organizing tool for the exploitation of labor in Africa and on a global scale. Case studies are presented on Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Tanzania, Somalia, Angola, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, and South Sudan. There are also chapters analyzing the interests of Russia and China in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development, and economics.

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9987080316
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accumulation in an African Periphery written by Issa G. Shivji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.

Author : Petr Ivanovich Polʹshikov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in Developing Africa written by Petr Ivanovich Polʹshikov and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edwin Charlé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Systems and Capital Accumulation in Some Traditional African Societies written by Edwin Charlé and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julius Edo Nyang'oro
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Capitalist Development in Africa written by Julius Edo Nyang'oro and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-07-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work goes beyond recent analyses of African development to present a post-dependency framework for the study of Africa's political economy. The author argues that, although the contributions of the modernization and dependency frameworks cannot be ignored, recent economic and political adjustments and realignments require a more penetrating analysis--one that takes into account such factors as the overall growth of the economy, the role of the state, parallel markets, and capitalist development in general. An ideal supplemental text for courses in comparative politics, international political economy, and African development, the volume is comparative in approach and covers the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The author begins by discussing the various dimensions--agricultural, environmental, industrial, population--of Africa's continuing crisis condition. He then closely examines the African development experience since independence and explores the evolution of development theory and its application to Africa. Arguing for a new mode of production approach to the study of Africa's political economy, the author attempts to determine whether Africa is indeed predominantly capitalist and raises questions regarding prevailing theories of capitalist development. Finally, Nyang'oro looks at the state in Africa, pointing to some fundamental weaknesses that contribute to the ongoing crisis and offering a perceptive assessment of development options open to Africa.

Author : Andre Gunder Frank
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349160148
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment written by Andre Gunder Frank and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9987081509
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accumulation in an African Periphery written by G. Shivji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.

Author : John Sender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136856722
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Capitalism in Africa written by John Sender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853454304
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accumulation on a World Scale written by Samir Amin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accumulation on a World Scale written by Samir Amin and published by New York : Monthly Review Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samir Amin analyzes the process of capital accumulation on a global level.