Africa

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Africa is written by Rainer Tetzlaff and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3658349824 (ISBN 10) and 9783658349820 (ISBN 13).

The textbook provides an in-depth overview of African history and politics from the Atlantic slave trade, through the phases of colonialism and decolonization, to the development problems of the present. Various development theories are used to explain successful and failed development paths of individual countries after 1960. Thematic foci include Europe's colonial legacy, state formation and state failure, democratization, the curse of raw materials, population growth, hunger and poverty, ethnic conflicts, and the roles of the World Bank, EU, and China as external actors in Africa.