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Cover -- Half Title -- About the Book and Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- The Role Of The Frontline States -- Theoretical Approach To The Study -- Focus Of The Study -- 2 The Alliance In Action -- Origins Of The Frontline States -- Legacy Of Previous Negotiations For Majority Rule -- Tactical Changes By The Rhodesian Government -- Negotiating Conferences: Camouflage Or Compromise? -- Victoria Falls -- Geneva -- Anglo-American Proposals -- Malta I and II -- Internal Settlement -- Unity Among The Nationalists -- 3 The High Price Of Political Victory -- Tensions Along The Frontline -- From Lancaster House To Harare -- Costs Of The War -- 4 Dependence Of The Frontline Political Economies -- Theories Of Dependence -- Perpetuation Of Dependence And Underdevelopment -- Critiques Of Dependence Theories -- Frontline States' Economic Dependence -- Summary -- 5 Across The Negotiating Table: Allies Of Rhodesia -- Great Britain As The Colonial Power -- Great Britain As The Negotiator -- The United States -- South Africa -- 6 Relative State Autonomy: Revolutionary Support For Zimbabwean Liberation -- Introduction -- Introduction To The Theories Of Relative State Autonomy -- Conditions Of Relative State Autonomy -- Limitations Of State Autonomy -- Mozambique: Revolutionary Support For Zimbabwean Liberation -- Colonial Political Economy -- The State And Class Struggle In Mozambique -- Basis Of Relative State Autonomy -- Angola: A Frontline State Besieged -- Colonial Political Economy -- The State And Class Struggle In Angola -- Basis Of Relative State Autonomy -- 7 Limitations To State Autonomy: Populist Support For Zimbabwean Liberation -- Botswana: Humanitarian Support For Zimbabwean Liberation -- Colonial Political Economy -- Contemporary Political Economy.

Although debates about the Gates Foundation's Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) continue with the serious criticisms that it will transform Africa's farming systems into monoculture and that it is trying to link African food production to the global 'food value chain', this paper focuses on more fundamental goals of AGRA: to access and privatise Africa's genetic wealth. Employing the theory of accumulation by dispossession explainswhyAGRA is appropriating African genetic wealth and the theory of philanthrocapitalism explainshowthat appropriation is occurring. This study employs philanthrocapitalism to show that the multiple acts of genetic resource expropriation are neither disparate nor unconnected, but rather, reflect a systemic change of replacing public agricultural sectors with private business practices and control.

Kofi Annan has just agreed to head the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & the Rockefeller Foundation. The goals of these foundations are ambitious. 'Our initial estimate is that over ten years, the program for Africa's seed systems (PASS) should produce 400 improved crop varieties resulting in a 50 percent increase in the land area planted with improved varieties across 20 African countries,' reads the initiative's press release. 'We have also initially estimated that this level of performance will contribute to eliminating hunger for 30-40 million people & sustainably move 15-20 million people out of poverty.'. Adapted from the source document.

This paper analyses the 'USA Trade and Development Act' (aka African Growth and Opportunity Act-AGOA) in the context of the WTO promotion for free trade. First, it briefly reviews 'free trade' relations for the African continent. It then analyses the trade relations of the US with Africa, as well as the performance of the US in following its own doctrine of open markets. The core of the paper addresses the trade agreement itself, discussing the conditionalities for eligibility for African countries to enlist the agreement, as well as analysing the provisions for the trade; it gives empirical findings about the impact of the act in its first years.