Africa's Development Impasse: Towards a Political Economy of Transformation
by Stefan Andreasson (9781842779729)

In "Africa's Development Impasse," Stefan Andreasson analyzes the failure of orthodox strategies for socio-economic development in Southern Africa and explores post-development alternatives. Looking at the post-independence histories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome the debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with new empirical research will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.

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