Africa and the World Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2594640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Cooper (0000-0002-2594-4169, corresponding author), Faith Cooper (0009-0007-7927-7991, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1981-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/523902 |
| OpenAlex | W2082700478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 95 |
| References cited | 227 |
Africa's involvement in the changing world economy has been a long one, and its effects on the lives of Africans have been profound. Samir Amin and W. W. Rostow, Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Samora Machel, would hardly dispute such a statement. But the question of whether this involvement has led Africans along a road toward material and social progress or into a dead end is very much in dispute. The title of this paper is the same as that of the introductory section of S. Herbert Frankel's classic study of 1938, Capital Investment in Africa. Becoming part of the world economy, for Frankel (1938: 1-3, 7), entailed the diffusion of Europe's capital, technology, ideas, and “civilized” form of government to closed, static, and undifferentiated economies. Now, writers such as Andre Gunder Frank (1967), Samir Amin (1974a, 1976), Walter Rodney (1972), and Immanuel Wallerstein (1979) stress instead the inexorable logic of a capitalist world system, whose effects on Africa are stifling instead of liberating. Both views share a unitary conception of the world economy, the first through a smug assumption that existing economic structures are part of civilization, and the second through an argument that sees change in Africa as a reflection of the growth of capitalism in Europe. The first conception of a world economy defined Africa's role as little more than holding back progress on a predetermined road; the second implied that Africa's influence on the world economy was not nearly so great. In the 1960s, scholars of Africa reversed such biases for a time. Especially among historians, an Africanist perspective emphasized “African activity, African adaptations, African choice, African initiative” (Ranger, 1968: xxi
Economic system · Economics · Political science · World economy · African history and culture studies · International Development and Aid · World Systems and Global Transformations
British policy and unequal development in rural Tanganyika, 1920–1961
Postcolonial Studies
The Food Crisis and Agrarian Change in Africa
The Politics of Poverty
Capitalists and Peasants
Strukturen und Prozesse in den bürokratischen Staaten des kolonialen Afrika
Building the Exhibition in India and British West Africa
Crossroads Regions
Rethinking Commodity Frontiers
Recharting Atlantic encounters. Object trajectories and histories of value in the Siin (Senegal) and Senegambia
“In [Them] We Will Find Very Desirable Tributaries for Our Commerce”
Capitalism and Autochthony
Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
The first two centuries of colonial agriculture in the cape colony
Africa after the Cold War
Theorizing Access
Agricultural modernization and the challenge of re-modeling African development
L'Itinéraire d'un débat
“To Seek a Better Life
Books/Livres
The Concept of “Articulation” and the Political Economy of Colonialism
Tubali's trip
Urban Studies in Africa
Historical and Dialectical Perspectives on the Archaeology of Complexity in the Siin-Saalum (Senegal)
Moralising the agrarian question
Third World Trade Unionism
Democratisation in Africa
Disease and development’ or ‘the underdevelopment of health’
African Growth Recurring
Silent Protests, Loud Impact
The Pasts and Futures of African History
Is mining good for development?’
Hayek in the cloud
Debunking Brazilian Exceptionalism in its Africa Relations
Mussolini's colonial race laws and state-settler relations in Africa Orientale Italiana (1935-41)
Post-Colonial Africa and the World Economy
Will China's Development lead to Mexico's Underdevelopment
Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens
The Peculiarities of Capitalism
South Africa in Gear
Capitalist homoficience, the frontier and uneven development in Southern Africa
The agrarian question in Africa
Land, politics, and Buganda's ‘indigenous’ colonial state
The slender, sweet thread
Contested terrain
Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines 1886–1920
The marxist conception of class
African Colonial Economies
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959
Historicity of extraversion in Côte d’Ivoire and the ‘post-conflict’
Lessons from African History. Between the Deep and the Shallow Ends of Social Theory and Historical Empiricism. An Interview with Frederick Cooper
New Wave African Historiography and African Historical Geography
Developing countries and market access
African Pasts in Africa's Future
Slamming the ‘Open Door’
The Western Indian Ocean as Cultural Corridor
Dispersing the Fields
Work in Times of Slavery, Colonialism, and Civil War
The Geography of Post‐colonial Africa
Questioning Colonialism, 2005-2023
Was the Wage Burden Too Heavy? Settler Farming, Profitability, and Wage Shares of Settler Agriculture in Nyasaland, C. 1900–60
Coercion and Control in Nyasaland
Muqdisho in the Nineteenth Century
Reciprocal Comparison and African History
Renewable energy and the centralisation of power. The case study of Lake Turkana Wind Power, Kenya
Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies
Bringing the Ruling Class Back in
The Troubled Encounter Between Postcolonialism and African History1
Moral Economies of Corruption
Towards a History of Mass Violence in the Etat Indépendant du Congo, 1885-1908
Agricultural 'modernisation' and the era of structural adjustment
Peanuts, Pangool, and Places
Material Culture and Indigenous Spiritism
Democracy and economy in Africa
The State and Capitalist Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Family History, Social History, and Social Change
South Africa's form of globalisation
Gatekeeping practices, gatekeeper states and beyond
Beyond gatekeeper spatial metaphors of the state in Africa
Landlords, tenants and colonial social engineers
Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction
Repenser les religiosités islamiques en Afrique
Anatomy of Business-Government Relations
The Unfulfilled Promise of African Industrialization
African Historical Studies Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past' and Radical Scholarship
The Prospects for African Economic History
From Free Labor to Family Allowances
Agrarian Populism in Colonial and Postcolonial Malawi
Capitalism and Autochthony
The (In)Commodities of Laissez-faire Integration
Capturing the Land
Tobacco, Time, and the Household Economy in Two Kenyan Societies
The Dynamics of Rural Accumulation in South Africa
African Studies Keywords
Islam and imperialism in Senegal
Capitalism and colonialism in Mozambique
An economic history of central Niger
Capital and labour in the Nigerian tin mines
Britain and the ending of the slave trade
Race and state in capitalist development
Colonialism and underdevelopment in east Africa
Imperialism
The Roots of rural poverty in Central and Southern Africa
Underdevelopment in Kenya
Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa.
Accumulation on a world scale
Internal migration in developing countries
Pre-capitalist modes of production
Labor and monopoly capital
The rise and fall of the South African peasantry
The Imperial Idea and its Enemies
Production and Reproduction of Warrior States
Transforming traditional agriculture
Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana
What Do Bosses Do?
The Great Transformation
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Making of the English Working Class
The migrant cocoa-farmers of southern Ghana
Maidens, meal, and money
Class and economic change in Kenya
French Colonialism in Tropical Africa, 1900-1945
Politics in an urban African community.
Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa
A New System of Slavery
From slaves to squatters
The capitalist world-economy
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Dependent Development
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
Africa in a Capitalist World
Unlimited Labour
Food, Cocoa, and the Division of Labour by Sex in Two West African Societies
Trends in Development Economics and Their Relevance to Africa
The Nature of Class Domination in Africa
Royal Monopoly and Private Enterprise in the Atlantic Trade
Land and Labour in Latin America
A critique of development economics in the U.S
The ideas of Samir Amin
Qlaju
South Africa in a comparative study of industrialization
Slaves and society in Western Africa, c. 1445— c. 1700
The Origins of Capitalist Development
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Theories of Underdevelopment
Imperialism and Social Reform
Development and Underdevelopment
A Modern History of Tanganyika
The Wretched of the Earth
Labour supplies in historical perspective
Africa and the Victorians
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Colonialism
Custom and Politics in Urban Africa
Plus a change, plus c'est la meme chose
Land Policy in Buganda
Peasants, capitalists, and historians
The 1946 African mine workers’ strike and the political economy of South Africa
The unsteady state
There is no theory of petit‐bourgeois politics
Imperialism and capitalist transformation
Class struggle and the periodisation of the state in South Africa
Underdevelopment and the law of value
Rural class formation and ecological collapse in Botswana
Capital and the state in South Africa
Capitalist accumulation in the periphery — the Kenyan case re‐examined
Imperialism and settler capital
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice
The state and capitalism in Kenya
The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa
The imperial factor in South Africa in the nineteenth century
The Characteristics of Plantations in the Nineteenth-Century Sokoto Caliphate
Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963
Agricultural Change in Tropical Africa
Politics and Class in Zaire
Socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Modes of Production in Africa
The Depression and the Administration in South-Central Cameroun
Rural Responses to Industrialization
Mutation de l'Imperialisme Colonial Francais dans les Annees 30
An Economic History of West Africa
Dissent on Development
The Political Economy of Labor Transfer
The Ghanaian Factory Worker
Rationality and Class Struggle
Race, Class, and Militancy
The Fishers of Men
Les villages de liberté en Afrique noire française
West African Trade and Coast Society
On the eve of Decolonization
Colonial Development and Good Government
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya, 1918-1977
Property Rights and Empire Building
| Unique citing works | 95 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,21 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2026 (44) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |