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Accumulation in an African Periphery

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dc.creator Shivji, Issa G.
dc.date 2016-05-25T13:59:33Z
dc.date 2016-05-25T13:59:33Z
dc.date 2009
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T14:50:23Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T14:50:23Z
dc.identifier Shivji, I. (2009). Accumulation in an African periphery. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.
dc.identifier 9789987080311
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2250
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2250
dc.description Full text can be accessed at the following link http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/accumulation-in-an-african-periphery
dc.description The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
dc.subject African
dc.title Accumulation in an African Periphery
dc.type Book


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