Prologue Introduction: The Lost Continent Africa's Crises and Underdevelopment The Indigenous and the Modern Systems: A Comparative Analysis The Illiterate Elites The Vampire African State The Inevitable Implosion The Acrobatics on Reform How the West Compounded Africa's Crisis Alternative Solutions to Africa's Crisis Epilogue and Conclusions Bibliography Index
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GEORGE B. N. AYITTEY is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at American University. He is the author of Africa Betrayed. He lives in Lorton, VA.
'George B.N. Ayittey's robust, provocative Africa in Chaos is typical of the vigorous torrent of scholarship and journalism that has begun to rethink Africa since the end of the 1980s, when old ideologies fell away and old orders began crumbling with them.' - Jeremy Harding, New York Times '...robust, provocative...Ayittey takes no prisoners.' - The New York Times Book Review '...Ayittey knows Africa well...a brave and reflective book.' - The Wall Street Journal
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