Edition bilingue anglais-français. Ce livre retrace l'itinéraire africain d'un artiste hors du commun. Etapes marquantes d'un périple entamé il y a un quart de siècle ; le Sénégal, où Edoardo Di Muro vécut près de dix ans, où il fonda une famille et où son travail artistique connut ses premières consécrations ; le Cameroun et le Nigeria, qu'il parcourut à plusieurs reprises de long en large ; la Côte d'Ivoire, où il plongeait avec autant de délectation dans la foule de l'immense marché d'Adjamé qu'il aimait partir, seul, débusquer les pachydermes et les fauves du parc de la Comoé ; l'Ethiopie, enfin, pour laquelle il éprouva un véritable coup de foudre et où il a choisi de s'établir avec les siens. Les dessins d'Edoardo Di Muro ne se regardent pas comme des œuvres d'art " ordinaires ". Ils s'apprécient grandement aussi pour leur valeur documentaire. On admire le détail architectural des magnifiques maisons " brésiliennes " de Lagos ou des solides bâtisses coloniales de Douala. On s'attarde sur les feuillages des arbres, omniprésents et rendus avec un souci de la précision obsessionnel. Les particularités vestimentaires ne relèvent jamais du hasard ; le motif de tel pagne ou de tel tee-shirt situe précisément le lieu et l'époque du dessin.Les coiffures, les scarifications et autres marques corporelles identifient quant à elles tel peuple de tel pays. Sous la plume d'Edoardo Di Muro, l'Afrique des villes apparaît ainsi avec la variété des ses formes d'habitat, sa diversité ethnique, ses contrastes sociaux. Et aussi avec l'humour et la joie de vivre dont ses habitants, à l'instar du dessinateur italien, ne se départissent jamais

A comprehensive thematic analysis of capital flight from Africa, it covers the role of safe havens, offshore financial centres, and banking secrecy in facilitating illicit financial flows and provides rich insights to policy makers interested in designing strategies to address the problems of capital flight and illicit financial flows.

An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. 16 papers in English, 8 in French.

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa's relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets To grow economically as they are growing in size, Africa's cities must open their doors to the world. They need to specialize in manufacturing, along with other regionally and globally tradable goods and services. And to attract global investment in tradables production, cities must develop scale economies, which are associated with successful urban economic development in other regions. Such scale economies can arise in Africa, and they will--if city and country leaders make concerted efforts to bring agglomeration effects to urban areas. Today, potential urban investors and entrepreneurs look at Africa and see crowded, disconnected, and costly cities. Such cities inspire low expectations for the scale of urban production and for returns on invested capital. How can these cities become economically dense--not merely crowded? How can they acquire efficient connections? And how can they draw firms and skilled workers with a more affordable, livable urban environment? From a policy standpoint, the answer must be to address the structural problems affecting African cities. Foremost among these problems are institutional and regulatory constraints that misallocate land and labor, fragment physical development, and limit productivity. As long as African cities lack functioning land markets and regulations and early, coordinated infrastructure investments, they will remain local cities: closed to regional and global markets, trapped into producing only locally traded goods and services, and limited in their economic growth.

Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, Tom Forrest examines the strategies and patterns of development employed by business people from the colonial period to the present. Through a series of highly readable case studies, he provides a broad picture of the various forms of capital accumulation and sectoral advances in trade, transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance and other services. These are set within the context of changing economic opportunities, shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and attitudes towards private business and the state.

In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is remarkable: more than $700 billion in the past four decades. But Africa's foreign assets remain private and hidden, while its foreign debts are public, owed by the people of Africa through their governments. Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce reveal the intimate links between foreign loans and capital flight. Of the money borrowed by African governments in recent decades, more than half departed in the same year, with a significant portion of it winding up in private accounts at the very banks that provided the loans in the first place. Meanwhile, debt-service payments continue to drain scarce resources from Africa, cutting into funds available for public health and other needs. Controversially, the authors argue that African governments should repudiate these 'odious debts' from which their people derived no benefit, and that the international community should assist in this effort. A vital book for anyone interested in Africa, its future and its relationship with the West.

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