Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kalu, Kenneth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Falola, Toyin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Imperialism.; African literature.; Africa-Politics and government.; Economic development.; African History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; African Literature.; African Politics.; Development and Post-Colonialism.

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans-it has merely transferred the ben...