Dependency redux: why Africa is not rising

摘要: Whilst numerous accounts claim that the continent is on rise, driven by high growth rates and supposed better governance economic policies, Africa's dependent position in global economy being reified. This article seeks to analyse dynamics which are accompanying a notional ‘rise’ of Africa but actually contributing pushed further into underdevelopment dependency. It calls question superficial move or declare has somehow turned definitive page its history. A based an intensification resource extraction whilst dependency deepens, inequality increases de-industrialisation continues apace, cannot be taken seriously. model growth-for-growth's sake replaced development agenda industrialisation moving up production chain been discarded. Instead, current ‘comparative advantage’ as primary commodity e...