This book is the product of research undertaken at the African Development Bank (AfDB) on the lessons that the continent of Africa can draw from the role of the

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa. The right to sovereignty over natural resources and the

The 1990s have witnessed the ascendance of a new orthodoxy which asserts that democracy and development are mutually reinforcing. This is in marked contrast to

This introductory text explains, and places in an historical context, the development theories behind contemporary debates, such as globalization. The author de