Inequality in Africa: Political Elites,

Because of the population growth in Africa, maintaining past trends means degrading human dignity for the majority, with a rural population surviving on intolerable toil, disastrous land scarcity, and worsening urban crisis, with more shanty towns, congested roads, unemployed, beggars, crime, and misery alongside the few unashamedly demonstrating greater conspicuous consumption, shopping at national department stores fill with luxury imports.

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Map
Equality and growth: tradeoff or interlink?
Research without statistics: what are the questions?
African incomes in global perspective
The great descent: inequality and immiserisation
The colonial roots
Transnational relationships
Capitalism, socialism, development and inequality
The ruling class and the people: conflict and discrepancies
Workers, the unemployed, peasants and women
Maintaining class: the role of education
Urban bias and rural poverty
Catching the Nigerian disease: the ruling class and exchange rates
Regional and ethnic inequality
Income distribution in the late twentieth century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Inequality in Africa: Political Elites, Proletariat, Peasants and the Poor

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