'Patrick Bond's book provides a solid theoretical, empirical, and analytical framework showing and proving that the processes of looting the African continent, which started with the slave trade, have continued to this day'.
Professor Issa Shivji, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
'A brilliant analysis and timely expose of the rapacious forces ranged against Africans today.'
John Pilger
‘An important contribution to the political analysis of the continent, as viewed on the inside.'
ComAfrica, Brazil
'This is a sophisticated book for a non-specialist audience, filled with rage at the self-serving drivel that passes for analysis of Africa in the mainstream and the deaths it is responsible for.'
Ken Olende, Socialist Review
- List of Figures, List of Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. Poor Africa: Two Views
- 2. Global Uneven and Combined Development: Neoliberalism, Stagnation, Financial Viability
- 3. Financial Inflows and Outflows: Phantom Aid, Debt Peonage Capital Flight
- 4. Unequal Exchange Revisited: Trade, Investment, Wealth Depletion
- 5. Global Apartheid's African Agents: Homegrown Neoliberalism, Repression, Failed Reform
- 6. Militarism and Looming Subimperialism in Africa - Washington, London, Pretoria
- 7. Civil Society Resistance: Two Views
- Notes
- Index