AFRICONOMICS, a history of Western ignorance

294pp., paperback, William Collins, London, 2024

ISBN 9780008581152

Bronwen Everill on the history of Western economic thought about Africa and why European and American interventions fail.

"A thought-provoking analysis of Africa’s relationship with economic imperialism" Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It’s A Continent

”This book outstandingly analyses the shortcomings of a certain approach to thinking about Africa, and it implicitly indicates the other side of the coin: the forces for change that will continue to shape the continent from within” Kofi Adjepong-Boateng, Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge

Historian Bronwen Everill is the author of Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a former Director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge, she currently teaches at Princeton University and is a Research Affiliate at the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past at Stellenbosch University.