Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Everill, Bronwen
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Everill, Bronwen

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre...
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Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Everill, Bronwen

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

$53.69
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Everill, Bronwen

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

$53.69
Author: Bronwen Everill
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge

For centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix" African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great surprise of all involved.

Historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail, and frequently cause harm, because they start from a misguided premise: that African economies just need to be more like the West. Ignoring Africa's own traditions of economic thought, Americans and Europeans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere. They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth, wealth, debt, unemployment, inflation, women's work and more, and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting.

The West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.



Author: Bronwen Everill
Publisher: New Press
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781620979754


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/29/2025

About the Author
Bronwen Everill is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Times Literary Supplement, and Smithsonian Magazine. She is the author of Not Made by Slaves and Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a research affiliate of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past at Stellenbosch University.
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