African Agency, Finance and Developmental States

This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternative decolonial development project in Africa. It does this by focusing on the triple themes of African agency, development finance, and African developmental states in the context of an emerging multipolar world system. The book must be read as an affirmatively disruptive inquiry into the twin evils of global coloniality and global capitalist economic relations that have kept Africa on the lower rungs of the global pecking order, thereby preventing the rooting of an alternative development paradigm on the continent. As such, the book seeks to contribute towards the project of extricating the financing of development in Africa from the clutches of the Global North and the emerging powers of the Global South. In this way, it is a call for Afro-rebellion against the old and new forms of global coloniality and global capitalism. While the book is of major interest to scholars and students of African Studies, Development Studies, International Development Cooperation, International Relations, International Trade and Investment, Diplomacy, AfricaChina Relations, and Political Science, it is equally meant for the general reader as it assumes no prior knowledge in any of the field of enquiry other than interest in the development of the African continent.

Seeks to open up a new approach by focusing on the impact of African actors on development financing from a decolonial perspective Analyzes African agency and the degree to which African actors are maneuvering within the discursive context of the emerging multi-polar world system Recommends assertive African agency and de-imperialized development finance as scaffolds for constructing African developmental states

Auteur
Gorden Moyo is Senior Lecturer at Lupane State University, Zimbabwe. He is also Founder of an independent think tank-the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe (PPRIZ). He received his Ph.D. in African Leadership Development from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He is Former Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, and Former Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, Zimbabwe. He has edited three books and published several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Retracing the Footprints of African Agency in Development Finance .- Chapter 3. Navigating African Agency in the Age of Multipolarity.- Chapter 4. Reinserting African Agency in the BRICS Financing in Africa.- Chapter 5. 'Renovating Economic Imperialism through Chinese Debtbook Diplomacy'.- Chapter 6. Rebooting Domestic Resource Mobilisation as a Decolonial Gesture.- Chapter 7. Deimperialising Financing of the Africa Union .- Chapter 8. Reimagining the Future of Development Finance.- Chapter 9. Reloading an Alternative Decolonial Development Project.