The business of development in post-colonial Africa / Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell, editors.
Dimier, Véronique, editor.; Stockwell, S. E., editor.
2020
HC800 .B87 2020
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Title
The business of development in post-colonial Africa / Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell, editors.
ISBN
9783030511067 (electronic book)
3030511065 (electronic book)
3030511057
9783030511050
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51106-7
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-51106-7 doi
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HC800 .B87 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.96
Summary
This collection brings together a range of case studies of European companies (most notably those of former colonial powers) and considers their involvement in development after European decolonisation. In this way, the book makes an original contribution to post-colonial studies. Individual chapters by both established and early career scholars examine the activities of foreign enterprise in various African states and the companies strategies to stay in Africa. They explore how businesses were not just challenged by the new international landscape but benefited from the opportunities it offered, particularly those provided by development aid. Together they constitute an important contribution to our understanding of both business and development in post-colonial Africa, redressing an imbalance in existing histories of both business and development which focus predominantly on the colonial period. This volume breaks new ground as one of the very first to bring the study of foreign companies and development aid into the same frame of analysis.
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Dimier, Véronique, editor.
Stockwell, S. E., editor.
Series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. 2635-1633
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1. Introduction: New Directions in the History of Business and Development in Post-Colonial Africa; Veronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell
2. Business, the Commonwealth and the Rhetoric of Development: The Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 19451974; Andrew Dilley
3. Adapting to Independence: The East Africa Association, Post-Colonial Business Networks and Economic Development; Poppy Cullen
4. Belgian Firms, Development Plans and the Independence of the Belgian Congo; Charlotte Strick
5. Oil Companies as Agents of Post-Colonial Relations: France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara; Marta Musso
6. A Partner in Progress? Shell-BPs Development Role in Nigeria During the Transition to Independence; Christopher Minton
7. The Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies: The Commonwealth Development Corporation and British Business in Post-Colonial Africa; Sarah Stockwell
8. Decolonizing Finance, Africanizing Banking- Francois Pacquement
9. The European Development Fund, a Dowry for French Companies?-Veronique Dimier
10. Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 19461975- Abou B. Bamba
11. European Private Sector and African Firms in EU-ACP Development Cooperation (19752000)- Olivier Van den Bossche
12. Afterword- Veronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell.

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