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Capitalism in Africa

Plundering Africa – Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes

Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and...

Talking and writing about the history of the exploited and oppressed

In the final instalment of our three pieces to mark the publication of Working People Speak – Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa, Kalundi Serumaga critically interrogates the concepts of 'workers' and 'working class' and their relevance outside of Western industrial society. He then reflects on how the oral history method might be one way to better understand the exploited and oppressed in their own contexts and in their own words.