Online Library TheLib.net » Africa's Long Road Since Independence: the Many Histories of a Continent
cover of the book Africa's Long Road Since Independence: the Many Histories of a Continent

Ebook: Africa's Long Road Since Independence: the Many Histories of a Continent

00
07.02.2024
0
0

'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London

Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency.

This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into...

Download the book Africa's Long Road Since Independence: the Many Histories of a Continent for free or read online
Read Download

Continue reading on any device:
QR code
Last viewed books
Related books
Comments (0)
reload, if the code cannot be seen