| Description |
1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Contemporary Africa Ser |
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Routledge Contemporary Africa Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Africa: A political map -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 The role of primitive accumulation and racism in capitalist systems -- Primitive accumulation -- Racism as a function of capitalism -- Strategies of primitive accumulation -- Piracy -- Slavery -- Organized crime -- Bureaucratic corruption/kleptocracy -- Debt bondage -- Eminent domain and nationalization/privatization -- Tariffs and taxation -- Migrant labor -- Note -- References |
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2 Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: Chocolate and neoliberal capitalism -- Introduction -- European exploitation of Africa -- Cocoa revenue: Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and beyond -- Cocoa: West African social experience -- Cocoa farming and capitalist exploitation -- Exploitation, poverty and affluence -- Comparative labor and fair compensation -- Capitalism and ethical consciousness -- Prospects for the future -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Capital accumulation in Liberia's rubber and iron ore sectors -- Introduction -- The crucible of capital accumulation: The peripheral capitalist Liberian state |
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Background -- Nature -- Functions -- Problematizing the capital accumulation processes in Liberia -- Background -- The predatory accumulation of capital process -- The primitive accumulation of capital process -- Sectoral capital accumulation: The cases of the rubber and iron ore sectors -- Predatory capital accumulation -- The rubber sector -- The Firestone Plantations Company -- The Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC) -- The Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) -- The Iron ore sector -- The Liberian Mining Company (LMC) -- The Bong Mining Company (BMC) |
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The Liberian American Swedish Mineral Company (LAMCO) -- Acelor Mittal -- China Union Mining Company -- The primitive accumulation of capital -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 4 The Congo paradox: Accumulation crisis and resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Overview -- The Congo paradox -- Resilience: More than a set of coping mechanisms -- Capital accumulation and the state -- The state and macroeconomic crisis -- Contentieux belgo-congolais -- Zaïrianization policy -- The impact of the global crisis of the 1970s -- Fiscal indiscipline |
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Rise and fall of the new breed of African leaders -- Resilience -- The politicization of the informal sector -- Civil society -- Whereto from here? -- Notes -- References -- 5 From unfree labor to neo-colonial extraction in Sao Tome and Principe -- Historical background -- Review of modern Sao Tome and Principe -- Politics of neo-colonial oil extraction in STP -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 6 Russia's return to Africa: Much ado but about what? -- Interpreting the motivations for Moscow's return to Africa -- Looking for partners and economic diversification |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Changing the perception of Africa's international role |
| Subject |
Saving and investment-Africa
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Capitalism-Africa
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Africa-Foreign economic relations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooper, Allan D
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| ISBN |
9781000384581 |
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1000384586 |
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