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Andy Wynne: Book Review: Questioning failed growth in Africa
International Socialism Journal nr. 150, apr 16 – side 220
Note: A review of Morten Jerven, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (Zed Books, 2015), £14.99
Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong ­provides a critical review of the recent economic history of Africa. Morton Jerven argues that, for most of the past two decades, mainstream economists have been faced with trying to explain the chronic failure of economic growth in Africa. In contrast, during the 1950s, the 1960s and even into the 1970s, many African economies actually grew rapidly, but this development was subsequently overshadowed by the economic problems of the 1980s and 1990s.
 

Andy Wynne + Abiodun Olamosu: Africa rising? The economic history of sub-Saharan Africa
International Socialism Journal nr. 146, apr 15 – side 117
Note: Sub-Saharan Africa is huge. Its area is larger than that of China, the United States and India combined or five times that of the 28 countries of the European Union. Its population, at over 930 million, is also getting on for twice as much as that of the European Union.
 

Ken Olende: Book review: The Comintern and the African Atlantic
International Socialism Journal nr. 145, jan 15 – side 203
Note: A review of Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Africa World Press, 2013), £28.99, and Holger Weiss, Framing a Radical African Atlantic: African American Agency, West African Intellectuals and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (Brill, 2013), £170
 

Andy Wynne: Review: A history of popular struggle in Africa
International Socialism Journal nr. 142, apr 14 – side 217
Note: Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig, African Struggles Today: Social Movements since Independence (Haymarket, 2012), £12.99
African Struggles Today seeks to explain the key role that mass social movements have played in the history of Africa over the last three quarters of a century.
 

Ken Olende: Imperial mythologies
International Socialism Journal nr. 132, okt 11 – side 220
Note: Robin Derricourt, Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas (Pluto, 2011), £17.99
This book questions the assumptions and prejudices that appear as soon as Africa is considered.
 

Andy Wynne: Book review: Africa’s opening
International Socialism Journal nr. 130, apr 11 – side 221
Note: Issa G Shivji, Accumulation in an African Periphery: a Theoretical Framework (Mkuki na Nyoto Publishers), £15.95
Professor Shivji of the University of Dar es Salaam has been writing in the Marxist tradition since the 1970s when, for example, he wrote the classic Class Struggles in Tanzania. His latest project, of which this booklet is the first chapter, is an analysis of the place and role of Africa in the global political economy of neoliberalism. The central message of the booklet is that the crisis of recent years has provided an opening for the Global South to refuse to play the capitalist imperialist game, whatever the rules. He argues it is time to rethink and revisit the direction of development and dominant strategies.
 

Ken Olende: African independence: A dream of freedom derailed
Socialist Worker nr. 2224, okt 10 – side 10
Note: It’s fifty years since the high tide of the anti-colonial movement. Ken Olende looks at what happened to the ‘wind of change’, and hopes for a new era
 

Jesper Høi Kanne: Tyveri af jord i Afrika og ny spekulation
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 302, okt 10 – side 12
Note: En bølge af jordopkøb i hele Afrika af mellemøstlige, asiatiske og vestlige firmaer og en fornyelse af fødevarekrisen truer fattige afrikaneres eksistensgrundlag.
 

Leo Zeilig: Book Review: Jonathan Derrick: Africa's 'Agitators'
Socialist Review nr. 333, feb 09 – side 26
Note: Armed uprisings, protests and revolts, some lasting years, marked the first attempts of European powers to divide and colonise Africa. From the 1880s, European forces were often paralysed by mass resistance – Italy's devastating defeat at the hands of Ethiopia in the Battle of Adowa in 1896 or the 1879 Zulus' victory in the battle of Isandhlwana, for instance.
 

Simon Assaf: Multinationals’ scramble for Africa fuels new conflicts
Socialist Worker nr. 2113, aug 08 – side 9
Note: The high price of oil is driving a new scramble for Africa that will bring more misery to the continent.
 

Leo Zeilig: Frontlines: George Bush: a bad man in Africa
Socialist Review nr. 323, mar 08 – side 4
Note: George Bush's five nation visit to Africa last month received some absurd congratulations. Even the normally discerning Guardian journalist Chris McGreal could not contain himself, commenting in an article called "George Bush: a good man in Africa", that Bush's African HIV initiative is "transforming healthcare in Africa and has been praised as the most significant aid programme since the end of colonialism".
 

Claire Ceruti + Leo Zeilig: Slums, resistance and the African working class
International Socialism Journal nr. 117, jan 08 – side 69
Note: Mike Davis’s book Planet of Slums provides a brilliant account of the rapid growth of urban areas and megaslums, created by the hammer blows of the global restructuring of the world system since the 1970s. This article focuses on some of Davis’s claims about the working class, and concentrates exclusively on the situation in sub-Saharan Africa.
 

Editorial: Lisbon summit: EU powers join the ‘scramble for Africa’
Socialist Worker nr. 2081, dec 07 – side 12
Note: The summit between European Union (EU) and African leaders last week only made the news in Britain because Gordon Brown boycotted it over the presence of Robert Mugabe.
But the real worries at the summit in Lisbon, Portugal, were about imperial competition in Africa.
 

Ken Olende: Africom: The ‘war on terror’ spreads to Africa
Socialist Worker nr. 2078, nov 07 – side 8
Note: US plans for Africa are about increasing its dominance and the grip of Western multinationals, and they will only make the people’s suffering worse
 

The Strangling of Africa
International Socialism Journal nr. 107, jun 05 – side 31
Note: Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.
Introduction to these next 3 articles.
 

Gavin Capps: Africa: Redesigning the debt trap
International Socialism Journal nr. 107, jun 05 – side 33
Note: Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.
 

Charlie Kimber: Africa: Aid, governance and exploitation
International Socialism Journal nr. 107, jun 05 – side 54
Note: Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.
 

Jacob Middleton: Africa: Trading on poverty
International Socialism Journal nr. 107, jun 05 – side 78
Note: Poverty, debt, trade, aid – Make Poverty History is stirring hundreds of thousands to protest over them. But New Labour wants to trap activists in a neo-liberal, free trade agenda. Gavin Capps, Charlie Kimber and Jacob Middleton analyse the real roots of poverty and lay the responsibility at the system run by the G8.
 

Poul Erik Kristensen: Afrika – det kæmpende kontinent
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 216, jul 03 – side 4
Note: Da Berlin-Muren faldt i 1989 ventede mange, at der ville være ny vilje til at hjælpe verdens fattigste lande. Den kolde krig hørte op, og de globale militærudgifter faldt voldsomt i starten af 1990’erne.
 

Poul Erik Kristensen: Den afrikanske modstand
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 216, jul 03 – side 4
Note: Leo Zeilig (ed.): “Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa”
 

Jørn Andersen: Boganmeldelse: Klassekamp og modstand i Afrika
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 207, okt 02 – side 5
Note: Dette er en meget bemærkelsesværdig bog. Dens emne er arbejderklassens kamp i Afrika.
 

Jørn Andersen: IMF hærger i Afrika
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 184, aug 00 – side 6
Note: Mange mennesker opfatter Verdensbanken (VB) og IMF, Den Internationale Valutafond, på linie med humanitære organisationer: De er med til at hjælpe, hvis økonomien er gået helt i smadder. Men intet er mere forkert.
 

Tom Christiansen: Politisk tumult i Afrika: Vesten holder med vinderne
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 160, jun 97 – side 4
Note: Det var en stor dag for Afrika, da Zaires diktator, Mobuto faldt. Men det er samtidigt slående, hvordan Vesten lavede en kovending fra at støtte Mobuto til at afskrive ham som en korrupt diktator.
 

Martin B. Johansen: Afrika mellem oprør og tragedie: Hærges af kapitalismen
Socialistisk Arbejderavis nr. 106, aug 94 – side 7
Note: 20 års verdensomspændende økonomisk krise har betydet arbejdsløshed og faldende levestandard i hele verden.
 

Charlie Kimber: Capitalism, cruelty and conquest (Thomas Pakenham: "The scramble for Africa")
International Socialism Journal nr. 57, dec 92 – side 161
 

Alex Callinicos: Africa: The new scramble
Socialist Review nr. 4, jul 78 – side 2
Note: In the last decade of the nineteenth century Africa was torn off its historical course and dragged into the World capitalist system as rival European powers carved their colonial empires out of the continent. The ensuing ‘Scramble for Africa’ formed part of the build up to the first world war.
 

John (Peter Sedgwick) Leslie: Towards an African Socialism
International Socialism Journal (1st series) nr. 1, jun 60 – side 15
 

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