African Perspectives on Development – Controversies, Dilemmas and Openings - Controversies, Dilemmas and Openings

Theoretical perspectives on the crisis of development theories. Twenty-three contributions, from established analysts such as Samir Amin, Peter P. Ekeh, Mahmood Mamdani and Goran Hyden on: the state of development theory, the effect of population on development, rural development, industrialization and the IMF, democracy and ethnicity, women in politics and in agriculture, and Africa in search of a new mode of politics. North America: St Martin's Press