The political economy of health in Africa

While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.

While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, b

Introduction / Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger. - Part 1. Historical roots of African underdevelopment. - Africa and the making of the global environmental narrative: challenges and opportunities for the continent's development initiatives / Martin S. Shanguhyia. - Indigenization versus domiciliation: a historical approach to national content in Nigeria's oil and gas industry / Jesse Salah Ovadia. - Globalization and rural land conflict in north-west Cameroon: a historical perspective / Emmanuel M. Mbah. - Evolving political accountability in Kenya / Jacob Butler. - Part 2. Africa in the new global economy. - Towards a contextualized appraisal of securities regulation in East Africa / June McLaughlin. - The impact of changing global power relations on African governance of foreign direct investment / Roshen Hendrickson. - Globalization and regional impulses from the global South: a comparative study of ECOWAS and ASEAN / Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr. - The political implication of past and present Nigerian financial crises / Muhammed Tanko. - Transcending an elitist approach and making a paradigm shift from growth without development to a "populist" development / Hauwa'u Evelyn Yusuf and Adefarakan Adedayo Yusuf. - Part 3. Forging new international connections. - The political economy of rising Asian interests in Africa: problems, prospects, and challenges / Olusegun M. Osinibi. - The impact of the BRICS countries on Africa's socio-economic development in the post-Cold War era / Alexius Amtaika. - How ready is Nigeria for Chinese investments? / John E. Anegbode and Cletus E. Onakalu. - The new scramble for Africa? Indo-Kenyan economic relations, 1980-2010 / Felix Kiruthu, Mary Kinyanjui and Francis Muchoki. - Part 4. The way forward for twenty-first-century development. - French foreign policy in Rwanda: language, personal networks, and changing contexts / Céline A. Jacquemin. - The question of development in Africa / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole. - A critique of the notion of