The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa

1. Capitalism and the African Context1.1. Introduction: The Capitalist Political Economy1.2. Capitalism in the African Context: A Historical Perspective1.3. Indigenous Capitalism, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the First Scramble forAfrica1.4. Frontier Capitalism of Colonial Africa: The Second Scramble for Africa
2. The Post-Colonial State: From Frontier Capitalism to Neocolonial Capitalism2.1. Political Decolonisation and Neocolonial Capitalism2.2. The Convoluted Legacies of Colonialism and the Economies of the Post-ColonialStates2.3. Explanations for the Rise of the Asian Economies and the African Context2.4. The Counternarrative about Failed Capitalism in Africa
3. The "French - Africa Connection" and the Refusal to Decolonise3.1. Contextualising the "Connection"3.2. Independence without Monetary Sovereignty3.3. Vociferous Narratives about the French - Africa Connection
4. Natural Resources and Rentier Capitalism4.1. The Hope of Prosperity4.2. Resource Curse4.3. Resource Rents and Rentier State4.4. Rentier Stakes and Stakeholders: A New Conceptual Explanation4.5. Stakeholder Politics and Accumulation in Rentier Capitalism
5. Dysfunctional Versions of Capitalism and the Political Economy of "Eating"5.1. The Institutional and Policy Framework5.2. The Dysfunctioning Process5.3. Versions of Dysfunctional Capitalism in Africa5.4. Some Governance Dimensions of Dysfunctionality5.5. A Postscript on Dysfunctional capitalism
6. Key Governance Dimensions of Dysfunctionality6.1. The Seriousness and Decisiveness of Governance6.2. Fetish Celebration of Small Things and the Dramatization of Unseriousness6.3. Political Violence and Politics of the Unserious
7. Africa: China - Africa Relations: Averting the Risk of Deepening Subaltern Capitalism7.1. The Subaltern Context7.2. The International Context and Historical Phases of China's Engagement with Africa7.3. Evaluating the Contemporary China - Africa Relations
8. Productive Forms of Capitalism: Trends and Prospects8.1. The Philosophical Context8.2. The Marginalised Productive Forms of Capitalism in Africa8.3. The Feasibility of Entrepreneurial Capitalism in Africa8.4. Further Thoughts on Prospects of Accelerated Capitalist Development in Africa
9. Postscript on Covid-19 in Africa9.1. The Covid-19 Pandemic9.2. Predictions and Economic Impact9.3. Approach, Intervention and Support