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Although I have so far concentrated on more overtly political issues, many would argue that the root cause of the political crisis in contemporary Africa lies in its economic failure, that is in the widespread crisis of production.1 There is no doubt that the present economic condition of Africa taken as a whole is not cheering. There seem to be today more frequent cases of more severe famines than there were ten or thirty years ago. All the economic indicators, from debt to growth, are poor, if not downright alarming.
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Sara Berry, ‘The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa’, African Studies Review, 26, 2 (1983); Ravenhill, 1986; S. Commins et al., Africa’s Agrarian Crisis; the Roots of Famine (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986)
M. Glantz (ed.), Famine in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Jacques Giri, L’Afrique en panne (Paris: Karthala, 1988)
Tidiane Diakité, L’Afrique malade d’elle même (Paris: Karthala, 1986).
For the Marxist perspective, Paul Baran, The Political Economy of Growth (New York: Modern Reader, 1957).
Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama, vol. 1 (New York: Pantheon, 1968)
See Note 1; Martin Fransman (ed.), Industry and Accumulation in Africa (London: Heinemann, 1982)
Tore Rose (ed.), Crisis and Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa (Paris: OECD, 1985).
René Dumont and Marie-France Mottin, L’Afrique étranglée (Paris: Seuil, 1980).
Ghana is interesting: Naomi Chazan, The Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1983)
Dumont & Mottin, op.cit., pp. 234-47; A. Coulson, Tanzania: a Political economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
On an exceedingly poor if not unviable, country: Claudette Savonnet-Guyot, État et sociétés au Burkina (Paris: Karthala, 1986).
O. Hirschman, The Strategy of Economic Development (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958).
On the Côte d’Ivoire, see Y.-A. Fauré & J.-F. Médard (eds), État et bourgeoisie en Côte d’Ivoire (Paris: Karthala, 1982).
See here P. Duignan and L.H. Gann (eds), Colonialism in Africa, vol. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
Compare D. Fieldhouse, Unilever Overseas (London: Allen & Unwin, 1978)
G.-F. Gakosso, La réalité congolaise (Paris: La Pensée universelle, 1983)
B. Hughes, Le Congo (Paris: Maspéro, 1975).
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Chabal, P. (1992). The Crisis of Accumulation and Inequality. In: Power in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12468-8_9
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