The Book: Table of Contents 3 May 2006
(A book of 60,000 words for Polity Press)
Introduction
Part I The idea of Africa
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Africa today: ‘through a glass, darkly’
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Africa on my mind
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Africa in world history
Part II The engines of inequality
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Waiting for emancipation: slavery, colonialism, apartheid
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The intellectuals of the anti-colonial revolution
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‘Development’: the post-colonial counter-revolution
Part III What happened in the twentieth century
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Africa’s urban revolution
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‘The informal economy’: the rise of the market
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The explosion of the modern arts
Part IV Africa’s (neo-)liberal revolution?
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Moral politics and the religious revival
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The new diaspora in the information age
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A second imperialism or emancipation at last?
Guide to further reading

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