Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781842779729)

Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems.

In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become.

This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.

Author: Stefan Andreasson
ISBN-10: 1842779729
ISBN-13: 9781842779729
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2010
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d