Africa provides a unique perspective to understand today's global crises. This book explores how Africa, positioned historically in a subaltern role due to colonialism, offers a critical lens on the shifting dynamics of the modern world system.

The book presents how Africa's continued struggles against racism, colonialism, and economic exploitation make it a powerful site for rethinking the global order. Addressing ecological, ideological, financial, health, and systemic crises, the book demonstrates how problems in Africa are intrinsically linked to global issues. It argues that the so-called decolonization after 1945 was superficial, maintaining global hierarchies that marginalize Africa. With insights from thinkers like Nkrumah and Rodney, it challenges the entrenched structures of racial capitalism and offers new pathways for genuine global equity and justice.

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of international relations, economics, political science, and related disciplines, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the ongoing global power shift and Africa's challenges and position within the modern world system.

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Dr. Gorden Moyo is currently the Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Free State in South Africa and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lupane State University in Zimbabwe as well as the Director of the Public Policy and Research Institute of Zimbabwe. Further, he serves as an editorial board member of the Sabella Abidde Publishing House, University of Alabama (USA), as an Associate Member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, as the President of the Development Studies Association of Zimbabwe, and as a Member of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum Technical Group on Public Financial Management. Moyo is a former Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, a former Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals, and a former Member of Parliament of Zimbabwe as well as an ex- British Council Facilitator of the Pan-African Leadership Interaction Programme in 19 countries across Africa. He is a Chevening Scholar whose research focuses on global finance, international economic relations, developmental states, public leadership, military commercialism, Africa-China relations, and African Agency. His publication record includes several journal articles and book chapters as well as seven books. His most recent book is titled Africa in the Global Economy: Capital Outflows, Enablers and Decolonial Responses (Springer, 2024).

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is currently a Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with an emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He also serves as Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal & Vice-Chancellor's Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA), as Professor Extraordinarius at the Centre for Gender and African Studies at the University of Free State (UFS) in South Africa, as an Honorary Professor in the School of Education (Education & Development Studies) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Research Associate at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa; a Research Associate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa; and a Research Associate at The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at The Open University in the United Kingdom. His publication record includes more than a hundred publications and more than 20 books.