Africa and the challenge of development - Essays by Samir Amin

Is there anything inherently wrong with Africa that the continent has remained immobilized in a milieu characterized with rapid transformation in other parts of the globe? Is Africa caught in a web of conflicting ideologies of development from which it cannot extricate itself? Is Africa a victim of ineluctable constraints and conspiracies? Is Africa doomed? Or, should we hope for better days ahead? How soon? These and related questions are taken up in this collection of essays by Professor Samir Amin. Amin shows how the interplay of economic, political and cultural forces, in and around Africa, has conditioned the African crisis. He also proffers solutions.