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How Africa Works - Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 08.01.2026

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The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths about underdevelopment, unproductive land and overpopulation remain? In a groundbreaking new study of Africa''s developmental history, economist Joe Studwell debunks long-held views about the continent''s presumed resistance to growth, charting monumental changes in government, demography and asset management. Considering everything from settler colonialism to soil conditions, mineral extractivism to disease development and eradication, Studwell persuasively argues that the seizing back of land, people and states across Africa, has also been the seizure of mass economic development. From slavery to independence and beyond, this is the definitive account of the world''s second largest continent - and an optimistic look to its future.

Product details

Authors Joe Studwell, Studwell Joe
Publisher Profile Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 08.01.2026
 
EAN 9781805226772
ISBN 978-1-80522-677-2
No. of pages 448
Subjects Non-fiction book

Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Structural Adjustment, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies

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