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Extracting profit: imperialism, neoliberalism and the new scramble for Africa

By Lee , Wengraf

Book information

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Year
2018
ISBN
9781608468768, 9789240694439, 9789241509145, 9780821372838, 1608468763
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2286568 bytes)
Pages
viii, 339 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Anti-imperialist movements;Anti-imperialist moveme

Description

A historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization. This exploitation has not gone unchallenged, however. The book recounts various narratives of grassroots organizing and protest, from platinum workers' struggles in South Africa and Nigerian labor organizing to pro-democracy upheavals in Burkina Faso. It points to the potential for resistance to global capital and for fundamental change, in Africa and beyond.;Introduction and overview -- Legacies of colonialism -- Neoliberalism : crisis, debt, and structural adjustment -- "Rising Africa" -- The new scramble for Africa -- Resource curse or resource wars? -- Militarism and the rise of AFRICOM -- Class struggle and permanent revolution.

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