Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

The war to be human : value -- A global enterprise : waste -- Becoming-human in a time of war : remainder -- Of labor and fate-playing -- Of disposability -- Of survival -- City everywhere -- Powers of defending freedom -- Powers of expending life -- Live borrowings -- Bypass and splendor -- And...

Introduction /Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi --Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos /Adebisi Alade --Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity /Nick T. C. Lu --Maintaining...

"In Monetary Authorities Allan E. S. Lumba explores how money worked to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. By tracing the archives of economic experts from the late nineteenth...

Perverse temporalities : primitive accumulation and the settler colonial foundations of debt imperialism -- The military base and camptown : seizing land "by bulldozer and bayonet" and the transpacific masculinist compact -- The POW camp : waging psychological warfare and a new settler frontier...

"The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism examines unequal commercial, trade, and investment gains at the international level and explores how countries and nations can have exploitative relations. The book contains thirty-four chapters written by academics and experts in the field of...

"In The Right to Development in Africa, Carol Chi Ngang provides a conceptual analysis of the human right to development with a decolonial critique of the requirement to have recourse to development cooperation as a mechanism for its realisation. In his argumentation, the setbacks to development...

"The surprising story of how Algeria became part of the postwar European Economic Community-and why its membership ultimately ended. Challenging the narrative that postwar decolonization was separate from the establishment of an integrated Europe, the author shows how France used integration to...

"In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa examines the racial ideologies underlying capitalist expansion in the Global South. Focusing on Ecuador's booming cut-flower sector, Krupa shows how capitalist expansion bound the Global South to new modes of financial dependency and subjected Indigenous...

Insights into Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa / Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga -- Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows, Governance and Development in the Republic of South Africa / Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze and Pacific Thales Yapatake Kossele -- Social and Economic Effects of Illicit...

Insights into Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa / Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga -- Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows, Governance and Development in the Republic of South Africa / Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze and Pacific Thales Yapatake Kossele -- Social and Economic Effects of Illicit...

Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial "decentralized despotism" or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers. Colonizers...

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data from 26 countries. First, we map and characterize the geography of IM. There is substantial variation both across and within countries with differences in literacy of the old...

In a world that breathes "coloniality" at large, a growing number of post- and decolonial organization scholars problematize power by recognizing the persisting aftermath of the colonial experience (Mills 2018, Alcadipani, Khan, Gantman and Nkomo 2012). The question how colonial power relations...

Institutional reforms in developing countries often involve copying institutions from developed countries. Such institutional copying is likely to fail, if formal institutions alone are copied without the informal institutions on which they rest in the originating country. This paper...

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...

"Four hundred years. A vast geography. Making and Breaking Settler Space explores how settler spaces have developed and diversified from contact to the present. Adam Barker traces the trajectory of settler colonialism, drawing out details of its operation that are embedded not only in...

Les Panama Papers de la République Démocratique du Congo: pourquoi ce pays potentiellement riche est-il si pauvre? Dans 'Cobalt blues', le journaliste Erik Bruyland se plonge dans l'histoire postcoloniale de son pays natal, la République Démocratique du Congo. Le passé colonial belge s'est...

This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of capitalism that tend to be dominant in the...

"Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? This book advances a novel answer to this question by looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa: communities are better able to coordinate around basic...

Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity Boom of the 1970s -- Chapter 8. The Lost Decade of the...

"Chapter 1 Introduction Colonialism and Africa's Future Paths The European ways were considered modern, the African old-fashioned. Lagos culture was such an unfortunate conglomeration of both that you ended up not knowing to which you belonged. Buchi Emecheta, The Bride Price (1976) This book...

This textbook serves as an introduction to the major economic topics and events in Latin America's history, from the settling of the region by indigenous Americans and then Europeans, Africans and Asians, to the economic consequences of COVID-19. Each chapter concentrates on a particular period...

"In the last 200 years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the “tragedy of the commons” and the “crisis of capitalism” have done little to explain this concentration of land,...

"At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily...

"The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is a multi-disciplinary intervention into postcolonial theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire. This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies associated with the colonial...

The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and...

Did individual British officers determine the institutional development of former colonies? The article presents a new research program into institutional reform and economic development based on a newly established dataset of over 14,000 biographical entries of senior colonial officers in 54...

This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries. Examining colonial and post-colonial times, Mata analyses the decision to build a Portuguese monetary area in the early 1960s...

"What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her...