Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Experts,' Africanists and Africa's development crisis; Received wisdom and Africa's development trajectory; The Colonial antecedents; Democratic experiments and sustainable democracy; Technology transfer and the crisis of industrialization; The dialectics of agricultural transformation; Oil and economic development strategies, 1970 - 1986; Economic crisis and structural adjustment program; State, youth and women movements, 1986 - 1998; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Dr Jeremiah I. Dibua is Professor of History at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.