Presents a Southern perspective on the contradictions of the new scramble for Africa and the struggles for development in the 21st century

Compares the strategies employed by emerging powers in their engagement with Africa

Explores the forms of local, regional, and national resistance to the expropriation of land and natural resources in Africa

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Sam Moyo (19542015) was Executive Director of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS, 200215), Harare, Zimbabwe, President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, 200911), and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy (201215). An eminent scholar of land and agrarian studies, he published widely in academic journals and authored several books, including, among the most recent, The Agrarian Question in the Neoliberal Era (Pambazuka, 2011), Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Beyond White-Settler Capitalism (CODESRIA, 2013), and Land in the Struggles for Citizenship in Africa (CODESRIA, 2015).

Praveen K. Jha is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and adjunct at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has been a visiting fellow at a number of universities and institutions in Germany, China, Switzerland, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and has collaborated in research programmes with UN agencies, including the ILO, UNICEF, UNDP, and FAO. He has published widely on labour and agrarian relations, the economics of education, and public finance. He is a co-editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.

Paris Yeros is Professor of International Economics at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil, and co-editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. He has been a visiting fellow at universities and institutes in Brazil, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and has published widely on labour and agrarian relations, social movements, and nationalism. He is a co-editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy.

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This book presents the findings of research conducted by scholars and activists associated with the Agrarian South Network, based mainly in Africa, Asia and Latina America. The research articulates a Southern perspective on the new scramble for Africa, with a view to strengthen tri-continental solidarities. The book explains the significance of the new scramble in terms of the economic structures inherited from the late-nineteenth-century scramble and the subsequent post-independence period. The renewed competition for Africa's land and natural resources and the resumption of economic growth at the turn of the millennium have revived concerns regarding the continent's position in the world economy and the prospects for its development in the twenty-first century. In this regard, the book addresses two related issues: the character of the expansion of Southern competitors in relation to the more established Western strategies; and the impact of the renewed influx of investments in land, minerals, and associated infrastructure. The findings are presented with empirical rigor and conceptual clarity, to enable the reader to grasp what really is at stake in the twenty-first century an epic struggle to reclaim Africa from the monopolies that exercise control over its land, minerals, labour, and destiny.

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The below is the table of content with the contributing authors listed.
I. Introduction

1. Overview: Scramble, Primitive Accumulation and Resistance (Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros; AIAS, JNU and University of Federal do ABC)2. Trajectories of Gender Relations (Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana)3. Trajectories of Agrarian Transformation (Sam Moyo, AIAS)
   II. The Scramblers: Sources and Strategies
2. USA (to be identified)5. China (Beverly Silver, John Hopkins University)6. India (Praveen Jha, Santosh Kumar and Nilachala Acharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University)7. Brazil (Paris Yeros and Marcelo Rosa, University of Federal do ABC and University of Brasilia)8. South Africa (Bill Martin, Binghamton University)
   III. National Experiences of Primitive Accumulation and Resistance
3. Angola (Garcia Neves, University of Angola)10. Botswana (Nnyaladzi Batisani, University of Botswana)11. Ghana (Dzodzi Tsikata and Dzifa Torvikey, University of Ghana)12. Mali (Mamadou Goita, Institute of research and development, Mali)13. Senegal and Mauritania (Abdoue Ndiaye, University of Bordeaux)14. Tanzania (Ngwanza Kamata and Bernard Baha, University of Dar es Salaam)15. Uganda (Guiliano Martineillo, Makerere Institute for Social Research)16. Kenya  (Nicholas Odoyo, Nairobi University)17. Zambia (Horman Chitonge, University of Cape Town)18. Zimbabwe (Sam Moyo, Walter Chambati, Freedom Mazwi & Ranga Muchetu; AIAS)
   IV. Conclusion
4. Resistance, Pan-Africanism and Non-Alignment (Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros)