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In Greek mythology, Apollo—the god of prophesy, poetry, and music—gave the beautiful Cassandra the gift of foresight in a bid to seduce her.1 When Cassandra refused his advances, Apollo invoked a curse that her truthful prophesies would not be believed, and that she would be considered mad. The more contemporary tale that we recite here is not one of unrequited love or insanity, but the heroic efforts of three technocratic Cassandras to promote regional integration in Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
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This chapter builds on Adekeye Adebajo, “Two Prophets of Regional Integration: Prebisch and Adedeji,” in Bruce Currie-Alder, Ravi Kanbur, David M. Malone, and Rohinton Madhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 323–38; and “A Tale of Two Prophets: Jean Monnet and Adebayo Adedeji,” in Amos Sawyer, Afeikhena Jerome, and Ejeviome Eloho Otobo (eds.), African Development in the 21st Century: Adebayo Adedeji’s Theories and Contributions (Asmara and Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014), pp. 77–90.
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Adebajo, A. (2016). A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji. In: Levine, D.H., Nagar, D. (eds) Region-Building in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137586117_4
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