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Rempel describes African development after independence as a mix of colonial policies and institutions with approaches created in United Nations forums. By the late 1960s African governments were advancing national development agendas. The Economic Commission for Africa drafted the Lagos Plan, a continental development blueprint, a decade later. Rempel argues the 1970s were a turning point for African development, as global economic volatility and the unraveling of nationalist coalitions undermined earlier state-led development approaches. Rempel surveys African experiences with subsequent structural adjustment policies, describing their development impacts and outlining African responses to adjustment and governance reform. Rempel’s overview of African development history ends with varied efforts to re-launch a development project in the new millennium. These, like their predecessors, involved both external and African agency.

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Rempel, R. (2018). Development History and Postcolonial African Experience. In: Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_36

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