False Starts in Africa
Recharting the Prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692969 |
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| Authors | Peter Vales (0000-0003-0805-9325, Rhodes University, corresponding author), Peter Vale (0009-0008-0545-8607) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 518-520 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1521-9488.2006.00618.x |
| OpenAlex | W1998869768 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Nepad: Toward Africa's Development or Another False Start, by Ian Taylor, is a mixed book about Africa's prospects in the twenty-first century. As the title suggests, the book focuses on NEPAD (the New Partnership for Africa's Development), which, as Taylor has it, is the brainchild of South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki. The book's subtitle echoes an earlier volume on postcolonial French Africa (L'Afrique noire est mal partie), written by the French agronomist RenéDumont (1969) and translated into English as False Start in Africa. Dumont argued that the African continent was doomed to fail. Its leaders and their patrons had gotten Africa off on the wrong foot by adopting elite-driven development programs. “Independence isn't for us; it's for the city people,” Dumont famously quotes Congolese peasants as saying (Oliver 1967:4). For Dumont, the continent was programed to experience an endless series of letdowns from
Economic history · Elite · General partnership · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subtitle · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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