Grid-Locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-Imperial Socio-Economic and Legal Force-Fields in the 21st Century
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter One - Explosive Economic Minefields in Invisible Neo-Imperial Force-fields: An Introduction to Decolonising Economies in Africa -- Introduction -- Economic Terrorism and the Ongoing Destabilisation of Africa -- Chapter Outlines -- References -- Chapter Two - Anticipating African Economic Futures - Or Is It Time to Look in the Rear View Mirrors? Land Restitution, Unemployment and the Figure of the Posthuman -- Introduction -- Vanishing Pasts and Stolen Futures: Anticipating African Economic Futurity -- Economic Saviours or Sacrificers? Posthumanist Economies and Mirages of Decolonisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three - Re-Africanisation of Economies through Ubuntu? Business and Kinship Obligations in Urban South Africa -- Introduction -- An African Pre-colonial Era History of Doing Business -- Beyond Reciprocal Cooperation as a Form of Ubuntu and Capital -- The Reciprocal Element of Ubuntu and Obligations -- Reciprocal Cooperation Influences on Kinship Relations and Obligations -- The Paradox of Balancing Kin and Business Obligations within Neoliberal Spaces -- The Variance between Western and African Approaches to Resolving Family Conflicts -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Four - The Land as Economy and Economy as Land: Towards a Reappraisal of the Political Economy of Land Repossession in Contemporary South Africa -- Introduction -- The Struggling Neo-colonial Economy, Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty -- Understanding "Land Reform", Decolonisation, Pan-Africanism and Land Repossession in South Africa -- Bitterness against the Racial Past, Land Activists and the Expropriation Rhetoric -- Failures to Restore the Land Back to Africans.