Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Classics_Gift_Guide Project Syndicate

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Newly adapted in a deluxe format for young readers from the New York Times bestseller Chasing Light

Treat people with respect

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Classics_Gift_Guide Project SyndicateA bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge For centuries, Westerners have tried to fix African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great