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How Africa works : success and failure on the world's last developmental frontier

Studwell, Joe

2026

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Codice SBN UBO4939916
Descrizione *How Africa works : success and failure on the world's last developmental frontier / Joe Studwell
London : Profile Books, 2026
X, 435 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
ISBN 9781805226772
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Studwell, Joe
Soggetti AFRICA - Condizioni economiche e sociali - Sec. 21.
Dewey 330.9605 SITUAZIONI E CONDIZIONI ECONOMICHE - Africa - Sec. 21.
Anno pubblicazione 2026
Titolo dell'opera How Africa works
Abstract di polo One of the most original and important books on Africa in years' FINANCIAL TIMES The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths about underdevelopment, unproductive land and overpopulation remain? In a groundbreaking new study of Africa's developmental history, economist Joe Studwell debunks long-held views about the continent's presumed resistance to growth, charting monumental changes in government, demography and asset management. Considering everything from settler colonialism to soil conditions, mineral extractivism to disease development and eradication, Studwell persuasively argues that the seizing back of land, people and states across Africa, has also been the seizure of mass economic development. From slavery to independence and beyond, this is the definitive account of the world's second largest continent - and an optimistic look to its future.