Reclaiming Africa

 1.   Introduction.- 1.1  Overview: Scramble, Primitive Accumulation and Resistance.- 1.2  Trajectories of Gender Relations.- 1.3  Trajectories of Agrarian Transformation.- 2.  The Scramblers: Sources and Strategies.- 2.1 USA.- 2.2 China.- 2.3 India.- 2.4 Brazil.- 2.5 South Africa.- 3. National Experiences of Primitive Accumulation and Resistance.- 3.1 Angola.- 3.2 Botswana.- 3.3 Ghana.- 3.4 Mali.- 3.5 Senegal and Mauritania.- 3.6 Tanzania.- 3.7 Uganda.- 3.8 Kenya.- 3.9 Zambia.- 3.10 Zimbabwe.- 4. Resistance, Pan-Africanism and Non-Alignment.- 5. Conclusion.

Sam Moyo (1954-2015) was Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS, 2002-15), Harare, Zimbabwe, President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, 2009-11), and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy (2012-15). An eminent scholar of land and agrarian studies, he published widely in academic journals and authored several books, including, among the most recent, The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era (Pambazuka, 2011), Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White-Settler Capitalism (CODESRIA, 2013), and Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa (CODESRIA, 2015).

Praveen K. Jha is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and adjunct at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has been a visiting fellow at a number of universities and institutions in Germany, China, Switzerland, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and has collaborated in research programmes with UN agencies, including the ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, and FAO. He has published widely on labour and agrarian relations, the economics of education, and public finance. He is a co-editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.