Horman Chitonge
Biographic Data
| ID | 637509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Horman Chitonge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Horman |
| FAMILY NAME | Chitonge |
| SIGNATURE | CHITONGE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8735-0745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Industrialization as an Act of Decolonization
The European colonial project of the nineteenth century has had long-lasting effects on the colonized. Although the transfer of political power from colonial to independent governments (political decolonization) was in most countries accomplished during the post-World War II era, economic decolonization has remained an incomplete project in many countries. Current patterns of production and export specialization in most former colonies, especiall…
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa
The expansion of capitalism into Africa induced significant transformations of African societies which have continued to influence what people on the continent do today. Africa’s encounter with capital, though still limited in scope, has always been ruthless, coercive and violent, as displayed in the slave trade, colonial occupation and current neocolonial incursions. Although some political economy analysts have suggested that capitalism in Afri…
The Oxford Handbook of the Zambian Economy
The Zambian economy has evolved from simple and fragmented agrarian activities at the turn of the twentieth century into a wide range of organized and regulated modern economic activities. Although the economy has largely revolved around the mining industry since the early 1920s when the extraction of copper and other mineral ores begun on the Copperbelt, there have been a gradual diversification of economic activities over time, with services no…
Resettled but not redressed
Redressing the wrongs of the past has been a central theme in democratic South Africa. The land restitution programme was specifically intended to foster the process of redressing the loss and pain inflicted through racially motivated and violent dispossession of land. After more than two and half decades of implementing the land restitution programme, there are serious questions around how far this programme has contributed to redressing the inj…
The Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Policy in Africa, 1960‒2018
This chapter examines industrial policy (IP) in Africa from late colonial times to the present. It focuses on explanations of the failure of African countries to transcend the first stage of import substitution and effect the structural transformation of their economies. These explanations lie in the nature of a country’s power relations, their interaction with foreign capital and international institutions, and their effect on the ability of the…
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia’s industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the colonial economy have not just survived six decades of independence in most African countries, but they have continued to shape the nature, scope and pa…
Urbanisation and the water challenge in Africa
Water scarcity has featured prominently in the policy discourses, especially at the United Nations level. This is in response to the growing pressure exerted on water resources by the rising global population against renewable but finite water resources. This challenge is acutely manifested in low income countries in Africa, where the rate at which the urban population is growing has outstripped the capacity of water services providers to accommo…
Land, the State and the Unfinished Decolonisation Project in Africa
Industrialising Africa
Hybrid land markets
This paper examines the growing trend of monetarised transactions of customary land in Zambia, and the impact of these dealings on customary land practices and norms. While transactions of customary land involving money are not a new phenomenon in many parts of Africa, including Zambia, the growing demand for land, especially in areas where land shortages are emerging, has led to a steady growth in these transactions, with the practice becoming m…
Capitalism in Africa
This debate examines the question of whether African societies are capitalist or not. The debate is currently taking place on the ROAPE website ( www.roape.net ), addressing the question of whether African societies have persistently managed to elude the irresistible forces of capitalism
Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia
The conversion of customary land into leasehold tenure has sparked intense debates in Zambia and beyond. Growing interest in land in the last decade and half has led to a spike in demand for land across Africa, especially land adjacent to major cities, towns and developed infrastructure. This growing demand for land is gradually being directed at customary land, which well-resourced urban and local elites, as well as foreign investors, are conver…
The urban land question in Africa
Land Redistribution and Zero Hunger Programs
This article looks at land reform in the context of the Zero Hunger Program (ZHP) in South Africa, focusing on the potential for reducing hunger and food insecurity among smallholder and subsistence rural households. Examples and experiences from Brazil, Malawi, and Zambia, together with data from a South African case study of smallholder and subsistence farmers, are presented to illustrate the potential that an integrated approach to land reform…
Cities Beyond Networks
The growing urban population in most African cities is creating pressure on basic services infrastructure. Expansion of basic services infrastructure in most of the major cities and small towns in Africa has not matched the growth in urban population. This has resulted in most basic service providers, such as water service providers, being overwhelmed by the rapidly growing demand for services, especially in low-income and informal settlement are…
Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in South Africa
This article examines whether rural households, both land reform beneficiary and aspirant, with access to land, use the land they have or not. Micro-data on crop and livestock production from land reform beneficiary and aspirant households in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) are analyzed to establish if households that have access to land actually use the land they have. Analysis of crop and livestock production data suggests that although land ma…
Land Reform and Rural Livelihood in South Africa
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Land Economics/Use
Social Protection Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
In recent years, social protection has attracted great attention, especially in low-income countries (LICs). Prior to the 1990s, social protection in many LICs was perceived as a luxury that only rich countries could afford. This article discusses the status of and approaches to social protection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using examples from selected countries in the region. The article first outlines the key concepts employed in social protect…
Who is subsidising whom? Water supply cross-subsidisation policy, practice and lessons from Zambia
This paper looks at the policy and practice of cross-subsidisation in the water sector, focusing on the Zambian experience. Setting a price for water services is a sensitive and controversial issue. Pricing water services below cost recovery can threaten the sustainability of the service and human welfare in the long term, while water pricing at full cost recovery often restricts access to water services for poor households, compromising their we…
Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia
The conversion of customary land into leasehold tenure has sparked intense debates in Zambia and beyond. Growing interest in land in the last decade and half has led to a spike in demand for land across Africa, especially land adjacent to major cities, towns and developed infrastructure. This growing demand for land is gradually being directed at customary land, which well-resourced urban and local elites, as well as foreign investors, are conver…
Capitalism in Africa
This debate examines the question of whether African societies are capitalist or not. The debate is currently taking place on the ROAPE website ( www.roape.net ), addressing the question of whether African societies have persistently managed to elude the irresistible forces of capitalism
The urban land question in Africa
Cities Beyond Networks
The growing urban population in most African cities is creating pressure on basic services infrastructure. Expansion of basic services infrastructure in most of the major cities and small towns in Africa has not matched the growth in urban population. This has resulted in most basic service providers, such as water service providers, being overwhelmed by the rapidly growing demand for services, especially in low-income and informal settlement are…
Urbanisation and the water challenge in Africa
Water scarcity has featured prominently in the policy discourses, especially at the United Nations level. This is in response to the growing pressure exerted on water resources by the rising global population against renewable but finite water resources. This challenge is acutely manifested in low income countries in Africa, where the rate at which the urban population is growing has outstripped the capacity of water services providers to accommo…
Industrialization as an Act of Decolonization
The European colonial project of the nineteenth century has had long-lasting effects on the colonized. Although the transfer of political power from colonial to independent governments (political decolonization) was in most countries accomplished during the post-World War II era, economic decolonization has remained an incomplete project in many countries. Current patterns of production and export specialization in most former colonies, especiall…
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia’s industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the colonial economy have not just survived six decades of independence in most African countries, but they have continued to shape the nature, scope and pa…
Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in South Africa
This article examines whether rural households, both land reform beneficiary and aspirant, with access to land, use the land they have or not. Micro-data on crop and livestock production from land reform beneficiary and aspirant households in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) are analyzed to establish if households that have access to land actually use the land they have. Analysis of crop and livestock production data suggests that although land ma…
Social Protection Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
In recent years, social protection has attracted great attention, especially in low-income countries (LICs). Prior to the 1990s, social protection in many LICs was perceived as a luxury that only rich countries could afford. This article discusses the status of and approaches to social protection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using examples from selected countries in the region. The article first outlines the key concepts employed in social protect…
Who is subsidising whom? Water supply cross-subsidisation policy, practice and lessons from Zambia
This paper looks at the policy and practice of cross-subsidisation in the water sector, focusing on the Zambian experience. Setting a price for water services is a sensitive and controversial issue. Pricing water services below cost recovery can threaten the sustainability of the service and human welfare in the long term, while water pricing at full cost recovery often restricts access to water services for poor households, compromising their we…
Land Reform and Rural Livelihood in South Africa
Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development, Land Economics/Use
Social Protection Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
In recent years, social protection has attracted great attention, especially in low-income countries (LICs). Prior to the 1990s, social protection in many LICs was perceived as a luxury that only rich countries could afford. This article discusses the status of and approaches to social protection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using examples from selected countries in the region. The article first outlines the key concepts employed in social protect…
Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in South Africa
This article examines whether rural households, both land reform beneficiary and aspirant, with access to land, use the land they have or not. Micro-data on crop and livestock production from land reform beneficiary and aspirant households in the Eastern Cape (South Africa) are analyzed to establish if households that have access to land actually use the land they have. Analysis of crop and livestock production data suggests that although land ma…
Land Redistribution and Zero Hunger Programs
This article looks at land reform in the context of the Zero Hunger Program (ZHP) in South Africa, focusing on the potential for reducing hunger and food insecurity among smallholder and subsistence rural households. Examples and experiences from Brazil, Malawi, and Zambia, together with data from a South African case study of smallholder and subsistence farmers, are presented to illustrate the potential that an integrated approach to land reform…
Cities Beyond Networks
The growing urban population in most African cities is creating pressure on basic services infrastructure. Expansion of basic services infrastructure in most of the major cities and small towns in Africa has not matched the growth in urban population. This has resulted in most basic service providers, such as water service providers, being overwhelmed by the rapidly growing demand for services, especially in low-income and informal settlement are…
The urban land question in Africa
Hybrid land markets
This paper examines the growing trend of monetarised transactions of customary land in Zambia, and the impact of these dealings on customary land practices and norms. While transactions of customary land involving money are not a new phenomenon in many parts of Africa, including Zambia, the growing demand for land, especially in areas where land shortages are emerging, has led to a steady growth in these transactions, with the practice becoming m…
Capitalism in Africa
This debate examines the question of whether African societies are capitalist or not. The debate is currently taking place on the ROAPE website ( www.roape.net ), addressing the question of whether African societies have persistently managed to elude the irresistible forces of capitalism
Silent privatisation of customary land in Zambia
The conversion of customary land into leasehold tenure has sparked intense debates in Zambia and beyond. Growing interest in land in the last decade and half has led to a spike in demand for land across Africa, especially land adjacent to major cities, towns and developed infrastructure. This growing demand for land is gradually being directed at customary land, which well-resourced urban and local elites, as well as foreign investors, are conver…
Land, the State and the Unfinished Decolonisation Project in Africa
Industrialising Africa
The Political Economy of Industrialization and Industrial Policy in Africa, 1960‒2018
This chapter examines industrial policy (IP) in Africa from late colonial times to the present. It focuses on explanations of the failure of African countries to transcend the first stage of import substitution and effect the structural transformation of their economies. These explanations lie in the nature of a country’s power relations, their interaction with foreign capital and international institutions, and their effect on the ability of the…
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa
Industrial Policy and the Transformation of the Colonial Economy in Africa offers an in-depth analysis of the role industrial policy can play in the transformation of African economies. Using examples from Zambia’s industrial development experience, this book illustrates that core features of the colonial economy have not just survived six decades of independence in most African countries, but they have continued to shape the nature, scope and pa…
Urbanisation and the water challenge in Africa
Water scarcity has featured prominently in the policy discourses, especially at the United Nations level. This is in response to the growing pressure exerted on water resources by the rising global population against renewable but finite water resources. This challenge is acutely manifested in low income countries in Africa, where the rate at which the urban population is growing has outstripped the capacity of water services providers to accommo…
Resettled but not redressed
Redressing the wrongs of the past has been a central theme in democratic South Africa. The land restitution programme was specifically intended to foster the process of redressing the loss and pain inflicted through racially motivated and violent dispossession of land. After more than two and half decades of implementing the land restitution programme, there are serious questions around how far this programme has contributed to redressing the inj…
Governance, land struggles and engaged scholarship
Capitalist development and land struggles in Africa
The expansion of capitalism into Africa induced significant transformations of African societies which have continued to influence what people on the continent do today. Africa’s encounter with capital, though still limited in scope, has always been ruthless, coercive and violent, as displayed in the slave trade, colonial occupation and current neocolonial incursions. Although some political economy analysts have suggested that capitalism in Afri…
The Oxford Handbook of the Zambian Economy
The Zambian economy has evolved from simple and fragmented agrarian activities at the turn of the twentieth century into a wide range of organized and regulated modern economic activities. Although the economy has largely revolved around the mining industry since the early 1920s when the extraction of copper and other mineral ores begun on the Copperbelt, there have been a gradual diversification of economic activities over time, with services no…
Industrialization as an Act of Decolonization
The European colonial project of the nineteenth century has had long-lasting effects on the colonized. Although the transfer of political power from colonial to independent governments (political decolonization) was in most countries accomplished during the post-World War II era, economic decolonization has remained an incomplete project in many countries. Current patterns of production and export specialization in most former colonies, especiall…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Development economics (6 works)