Looting Africa
Title | Looting Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Bond |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013-04-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1848137281 |
Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's brain/skills drain. Moreover, capitalism in most African countries has witnessed the emergence of excessively powerful ruling elites with incomes derived from financial-parasitical accumulation. Without overstressing the 'mistakes' of such elites, this book contextualises Africa's wealth outflow within a stagnant but volatile world economy.
Looting in Africa
Title | Looting in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Icom |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
Looting in Africa
Title | Looting in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9789290120179 |
Loot
Title | Loot PDF eBook |
Author | Barnaby Phillips |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786079364 |
A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?
Plundering Africa's Past
Title | Plundering Africa's Past PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ridgway Schmidt |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1996-08-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253210548 |
"An important book at a time when the booming illicit trade in African antiquities and the despoiling of some of the continent's prime archeological sites generate little concern in the art world." --Foreign Affairs "This benchmark publication challenges all of us to be part of the solution. Plundering Africa's Past cannot help but raise the level of discourse and consciousness about the looting problem, what needs to be done to stop it and about the relationship between Africa and the West." --African Studies Review "Plundering Africa's Past should be required reading for all archaeologists, historians, art historians, museum curators, and government officials involved in the cultural heritages of Africa, as well as most countries and continents with a disappearing past." --H-Net Book Review African government and museum officials, members of international agencies, academics, and journalists examine why the African past is disappearing at a rate perhaps unmatched in any other part of the world. Each looks at the international network of looting and trafficking from a different perspective. Here, for the first time, is a frank indictment of African contributions to the problem--voiced by the distinguished African essayists. The book concludes with a discussion of specific steps that could halt the disappearance of Africa's art and antiquities.
The Looting of Africa's Art Heritage
Title | The Looting of Africa's Art Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Lipson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art museum curators |
ISBN |
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa
Title | The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Everisto Benyera |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2021-04-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000396762 |
This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolution is postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa’s peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multinational corporations have turned big data into capital, which is largely unregulated or poorly regulated in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003157731, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license