What has happened that the hopes born during decolonisation are now so dissipated? How can Africa escape its current impasse? Since independence, the development model imposed on Africa by the west has utterly failed but Sanou Mbaye shows that Africa already has the cards in its hands to carry out its own development. The author dissects the structural causes of the failure that has dragged African people into a spiral of poverty and violence. He makes western responsibilities clear without hiding those of Africa itself. His lucid, multi-dimensional analysis offers a wide range of innovative solutions which will allow Africans to take charge of their own development.
Sanou Mbaye shows how political, economic and financial reforms, legal action, and a programme of resource mobilisation could guarantee the renaissance African people dream of. Profoundly Pan-African, he argues persuasively for the necessity of overcoming narrow nationalist and ethnic thinking. He is convinced that solidarity amongst the people of Africa is the fertile ground out of which will grow the changes that will allow them to reclaim their identity, damaged by centuries of domination, and to fully realise themselves. Only Africa can bring its own problems to an end, and the author offers us a book full of hope about the future of the continent.
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