The African Inheritance

Ieuan Ll. Griffiths

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781134983117
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers divided the spoils of the continent into separate sovereign states.
The African Inheritance examines the effect this "balkanization" of Africa has had, and is having, on the political and economic well-being of the continent.
From a brief history of pre-colonial Africa and its subsequent European partition and inevitable decolonization, the book discusses the consequences of such an inheritance: small and weak states, destructive secessionist movements, irredentism and African imperialism. Attempts to tackle these problems and assert independent development are inhibited by the colonial inheritance.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• THE AFRICAN INHERITANCE
• MAPS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 2 PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA
• 3 EUROPEANS AND AFRICA, 1415–1885
• 4 THE EUROPEAN PARTITION OF AFRICA
• 5 COLONIAL AFRICA
• 6 PROTECTING APARTHEID
• 7 THE STATES OF MODERN AFRICA
• 8 POLITICAL BOUNDARIES
• 9 CAPITAL CITIES
• 10 LAND-LOCKED STATES
• 11 SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS
• 12 IRREDENTISM
• 13 AFRICAN IMPERIALISM
• 14 POLITICAL UNION
• 15 ECONOMIC GROUPINGS
• 16 INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT
• 17 CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES
• ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY