"Pan" Africa Rising: The Cultural Political Economy of Nigeria's Afri-Capitalism and South Africa's Ubuntu Business

by Rita Kiki Edozie

Overview

This book uses Nigeria’s Afri-capitalist and South Africa’s Ubuntu Business models as case studies that reconcile the tension between Africa Rising and Pan African economics, presenting their convergence as Africa’s viable Third Way route to global development. In presenting Afri-capitalism and Ubuntu Business as national, business sector manifestations of a “new” Pan Africanism, the author explores Africa’s “culturalist” path in engaging the international political economy. This is an African customized engagement that parallels the alternative models of China’s “market-socialism” and Latin America’s “21st C Socialism”. All present alternatives to realist, liberal, and structuralist standpoints, inclining instead toward constructivist political economies derived from the perspectives and subject conditions of African economic histories, socio-cultures, alternative modernities, and agent-led initiatives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137595379
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/09/2017
Series:	Contemporary African Political Economy
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rita Kiki Edozie is Professor of International Relations and African Affairs and former Director of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Charting New Frames for African Global Engagement: Resuscitated Histories, Reimagined Concepts, and Reapplied Contexts .- 2. South Africa’s Ubuntu BRICS and Nigeria’s Africapitalist MINT: The Political Economy of (Pan) African (Risings) .- 3. Identity, Ideas, and Institutions in Global Transformation: The Critical Social Theory of African Economic Humanism .- 4. Afro-modern Entrepreneurs and New (Pan) African Business Leaders: Bios, Projects, Practices, and Impacts .- 5. Pan “Africa” Rising: The Paradox of Culture, Third Ways, and Co-Producing Global Development.