A Guide to African Political and Economic Development

A comprehensive account concentrating on the period 1960 to date, but always alert to the necessity to cast retrospective scans of the late colonial period and the nationalist struggles for independence, this academic treatise of African political and economic development explains why the nations of Africa have sometimes pursued what appears to the Western world to be an ill‐considered search for continental unity, diverting resources which might have been better applied to improving and consolidating the various national infrastructures. It is as if Africa, during this latest period in its history, had been seeking to achieve a political and economic...