Table of Contents

1. The Political Economy of Africa: Connecting the Past to the Present and Future of Development in Africa.- Part I Historical and Theoretical Foundations of African Political Economy.- 2. Left, Right and Centre: On Regrounding a Progressive Political Economy of Africa for the Twenty-First Century.- 3. Four Journeys of Capital and Their Consequences for Africa.- 4. History of Racial Capitalism in Africa: Violence, Ideology, and Practice.- 5. African Political Economy and Its Transformation into Capitalism.- 6. The Political Economy of Africa.- 7. Streets and Boardrooms as Hegemonic Spaces in Shaping Political Economy in Africa.- 8. Contextualizing the State Structure Requisite for Africa’s Development.- Part II African Political Economy Thinkers.- 9. Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Economy of Africa.- 10. Thomas Sankara and a Political Economy of Happiness.- 11. The Political Economy of Claude Ake.- 12. A Historical Political Economy Approach to Africa’s Economic Development: A Critiqueof Thandika Mkandawire’s Interests and Incentives, Ideas, and Institutions.- 13. Amilcar Cabral, the Theory as a Weapon of the Oppressed and Africa’s Predicament Today.- 14. Adebayo Adedeji: Africa’s Foremost Prophet of Regional Integration.- 15. Tracing Moyo’s Intellectual Footprint on Land and Agrarian Questions in the Global South.- 16. Thabo Mbeki: The Formation of a Philosopher of Liberation.- 17. The Political Economy of the African Crisis Through the Lenses of Bade Onimode.- Part III The State and the Political Economy of Development in Africa.- 18. Developmental State and the Political Economy of Local Government in Africa: A Case Study of South Africa.- 19. Circuits of Production and Channels of State: Pastoralists and the State in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (1910–1958).- 20. The Political Economy of Globalization and Employment Returns to Youth in Uganda.- 21. Neoliberalism, Economic Crisis, and Domestic Coffee Marketing in Tanzania.- 22. Analysis of Community-Driven Human Security Interventions in Africa: The Case of the Northern Region of Ghana.- 23. A Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: The Case of ‘Illegal’ Small-Scale Mining in Ghana.- 24. Fertilizer Policy, Governance, and Agricultural Transformation in Nigeria: A Review of Political Economy from Historical Perspectives.- 25. Deindustrialization and Entrepreneur Dynamism: An Assessment of the Replacement of Industrial Clusters with Event Centers in Lagos, Nigeria.- Part IV Political Economy of Reforms in Africa.- 26. Economic Reforms in Africa: A Critical Appraisal.- 27. African Development Strategies: Whither NEPAD?.- 28. The Global Financial Crisis and the African Economy.- 29. Impact of Public Debt and Governance on Economic Growth in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries.- 30. China’s Development Finance to Africa and the Spectre of Debt Distress.- 31. Euro-Africa Relations and Development in a Multi-Polar World: Nigeria and South Africa in Comparative Perspectives.- 32. Engendering Development: Any Lessons for Africa from the BRICS Countries?.- 33. Developmental State and Development Alternatives: Lessons from Cuba.- 34. The State, Resources and Developmental Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Part V Sectoral Approaches to Africa Political Economy.- 35. Sectoral Approaches to African Political Economy.- 36. Natural Resources and African Economies: Asset or Liability?.- 37. Natural Resources and African Economies: Turning Liability to Asset.- 38. Natural Resource Abundance: A Hidden Drag on Africa’s Development?.- 39. The Question of Gender and Human Security in Africa’s Extractive Industries.- 40. The Political Economy of Industrialization in Africa.- 41. Industrialization in Africa in the Era of Globalization: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects with a Focus on Manufacturing.- 42. A Critical Appraisal of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Political Economy Approach.- 43. The Political Economy of Micro-Credit in Africa.- 44. Accounting for Choicesand Consequences: Examining the Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa.- 45. Public Health and Political Economy of Development in Africa.- 46. “Afro-Eco-Entrepreneurship” Development in Africa: Utilizing Green Culture Advocacy as a Synthesis for Political-Ecological Justice Activism.- Part VI Security and Political Economy of Africa.- 47. Counting Lives: Colonial Institutions and Africa’s Prevailing Conflicts.- 48. The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Twenty-First-Century Africa: A Critical Evaluation.- 49. The Political Economy of External Intervention in Africa’s Security.- 50. The Political Economy of Insecurity in Africa: Focus on North East, Nigeria.- 51. Mediating Nation-Building in Post-colonial Africa: Addressing the Security and Development Nexus on the Continent.- Part VII Regional Integration and Africa Political Economy.- 52. The Languages and Grammar of Regionalism.- 53. Regional Integration and Challenges of Implementation in Africa: Some Missing Gaps.- 54. African Regional Integration and Pan-Africanism: The Case of African Migrants’ Welfare in Africa.- 55. The Political Economy of State-Sponsored Repatriation of Economic Migrants in Africa.- 56. Southern Africa’s Regionalism Driven by Realism.- 57. Development Without Borders? Informal Cross-Border Trade in Africa.- 58. The Relevance of the European Union Integration Experience to the African Union’s Integration Process.