The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching implications across the African continent. This discussion brings to light the role of African think tanks, such as the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) in rethinking the continent’s development models, especially, in light of the unprecedented crisis.

2020

Level: débutant

Growth with 'DEPTH' should guide economic transformation in Africa

 

Institute for New Economic Thinking

This blogpost discusses the bias the Economics discipline has towards Africa. It points out how important conferences on issues regarding Africa take place in Western countries at the expense of those based in Africa.

2015

Level: débutant

Economics has an Africa Problem

Dr. Grieve Chelwa

Africa Is A Country

A remarkable and insightful tribute into the works of late Malawian development economist, Professor Thandika Mkandawire. Must read for anyone looking to broaden their scope of understanding development as it relates to the African continent.

Level: débutant

Thandika Mkandawire - A Giant of African Economic Development

Dr. Grieve Chelwa

Miami Institute For The Social Sciences

This course will cover recent contributions in economic history that, using geospatial data from anthropological maps, colonial archives and secondary sources, will explore current economic and development challenges by drawing parallels between the past and present.

2022

Level: débutant

African History through the lens of Economics

Elias Papaioannou, Leonard Wantchekon, Stelios Michalopoulos, Nathan Nunn, etc.

Online

Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism.

2021

Level: débutant

Africa's Last Colonial Currency

Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla

Pluto Press

In this ambitious and impressive new book, journalist Howard French seeks to excavate the long elided central importance of the African continent as the “linchpin of the machine of modernity.” In the story of modernity, he writes, the role of Africa is diminished, trivialized, and erased, and by filling in some gaps in this story, he retells the story of modernity.

2021

Level: avancé

Born in Blackness

Howard W. French

Liveright Publishing Corporation

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of Black Power, Ujamaa Villages, and the everyday people who put an end to a colonial era

2022

Level: débutant

Decolonial Marxism

Walter Rodney

Verso Books