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Article: Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation.(Book review)
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- Multinational Monitor
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation By Patrick Bond New York: Zed Books, 2006 172 pages; $19.99
PATRICK BOND'S LOOTING AFRICA is a short but sweeping book, offering a multifaceted analysis of African economic deprivation, and insisting that charitable efforts to address African poverty will fail if they do not confront global and national structures of exploitation.
Patrick Bond, who is director of the Center for Civil Society at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa (as well as a Multinational Monitor contributing writer) is a public intellectual. He understands his work as elaborating, assisting and reflecting the work of social ...