Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/OGiCay Africa's Development Impasse Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation By: Doctor Stefan Andreasson Publisher: Zed Books, Limited Print ISBN: 9781842779712, 1842779710 eText ISBN: 9781848136038, 184813603X Edition: 1st Format: EPUB Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9781848136038 Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa. Additional ISBNs 9781842779729, 1842779729
