Lecture 10. The State in Africa

11/08/2014 48 min
Lecture 10. The State in Africa

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Episode Synopsis

Three social types: egalitarian kinship, agrarian civilization, national capitalism. Sketch of the state in Africa before colonial empire. Colonial and post-colonial states. The privatization of public interests. Collusion between African rulers and foreign interests. The Scandinavian model.

Moeletse Mbeki Architects of Poverty (2009)
Jean-François Bayart The State in Africa: The politics of the belly (third edition, 2009)