Title Grid-locked African economic sovereignty : decolonising the neo-imperial socio-economic and legal force-fields in the 21st century / edited by Victor Warikandwa, Artwell Nhemachena, Nkosinothando Mpofu & Howard Chitimira

Published Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Authors; Contents; Foreword; Chapter One -- Explosive Economic Minefields in Invisible Neo-Imperial Force-fields: An Introduction to Decolonising Economies in Africa; Introduction; Economic Terrorism and the Ongoing Destabilisation of Africa; Chapter Outlines; References; Chapter Two -- Anticipating African Economic Futures -- Or Is It Time to Look in the Rear View Mirrors? Land Restitution, Unemployment and the Figure of the Posthuman; Introduction; Vanishing Pasts and Stolen Futures: Anticipating African Economic Futurity Economic Saviours or Sacrificers? Posthumanist Economies and Mirages of DecolonisationConclusion; References; Chapter Three -- Re-Africanisation of Economies through Ubuntu? Business and Kinship Obligations in Urban South Africa; Introduction; An African Pre-colonial Era History of Doing Business; Beyond Reciprocal Cooperation as a Form of Ubuntu and Capital; The Reciprocal Element of Ubuntu and Obligations; Reciprocal Cooperation Influences on Kinship Relations and Obligations; The Paradox of Balancing Kin and Business Obligations within Neoliberal Spaces The Variance between Western and African Approaches to Resolving Family ConflictsConclusion; References; Chapter Four -- The Land as Economy and Economy as Land: Towards a Reappraisal of the Political Economy of Land Repossession in Contemporary South Africa; Introduction; The Struggling Neo-colonial Economy, Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty; Understanding "Land Reform", Decolonisation, Pan-Africanism and Land Repossession in South Africa; Bitterness against the Racial Past, Land Activists and the Expropriation Rhetoric; Failures to Restore the Land Back to Africans Whose Land is it anyway? Understanding Land as a Resource and the Anti-land Repossession Rhetoric in South AfricaConclusion; References; Chapter Five -- Displacements in Colonial Zimbabwe: Contestations, Meanings, Consequences and Some Lessons; Introduction; Conceptualising Displacement; Historicising Colonial Displacements in Zimbabwe; The Meanings of Land Dispossession and Displacements; Displacement as Loss of Land, Livelihoods, Mining and Farming Rights; Displacement as Loss of Identity, History and Belonging; Displacement as Permanent Disempowerment and Enslavement Displacement as Loss of Cultural Heritage and Indigenous 'Knowledges'Conclusion; References; Chapter Six -- Agriculture and Africa's Development Agenda; Introduction; Is Africa's Dependence on Agriculture the Cause of Poverty in the Continent?; Way Forward on Dealing with Technocratic (Neoliberal) Agenda for Agricultural Development; Conclusion; References; Chapter Seven -- Growth Orientated African-centred Agriculture, Cooperatives and Policy Reforms: Towards Poverty Alleviation and Food Security; Introduction; Co-operative Movement and Socio-Economic Contribution in South Africa Summary The emergent so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is regarded by some as a panacea for bringing about development to Africans. This book dismisses this flawed reasoning. Surfacing how "investors" are actually looting and plundering Africa; how the industrial internet of things, the gig economies, digital economies and cryptocurrencies breach African political and economic sovereignty, the book pioneers what can be called anticipatory economics -- which anticipate the future of economies. It is argued that the future of Africans does not necessarily require degrowth, postgrowth, postdevelopment, postcapitalism or sharing/solidarity economies: it requires attention to age-old questions about African ownership and control of their resources. Investors have to invest in ensuring that Africans own and control their resources. Further, it is pointed out that the historical imperial structural creation of forced labour is increasingly morphing into what we call the structural creation of forced leisure which is no less lethal for Africans. Because both the structural creation of forced labour and the structural creation of forced leisure are undergirded by transnational neo-imperial plunder, theft, robbery, looting and dispossession of Africans, this book goes beyond the simplistic arguments that Euro-America developed due to the industrial revolutions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Economic Participation of Co-operatives and Poverty Alleviation in South Africa Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2019) Subject Economic stabilization -- Africa Postcolonialism -- Africa Decolonization -- Africa BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Decolonization Economic history Economic stabilization Postcolonialism SUBJECT Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552 Subject Africa Form Electronic book Author Warikandwa, Victor, editor Nhemachena, Artwell, editor. Mpofu, Nkosinothando, editor Chitimira, Howard, editor. ISBN 9789956550203 9956550205

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