1970s Economic Hardship In Postcolonial Africa / Young / Eicher / Crowder

Question 1

Carl Eicher

Answer 1

Demonstrated that Africa was the only world region to experience a declining food production per capita post 1960

Question 2

Michael Crowder

Answer 2

“Nigerians of all classes have developed a deep cynicism about their leaders, both civilian and military, and certainly have little faith in the liberal economy and mixed economy that were the legacy of their colonial rulers”

‘Whose dream was it anyway?: Twenty five years of African independence, African affairs’

Question 3

What did the Nigerian Director of the United Nations Economic Commissions for Africa write?

When did he write this?

Answer 3

“How have we come to this sorry state of affairs in the post-independence years which seemed at the beginning to have held so much promise?”

1979

(Young)

Question 4

What did the report prepared for the 1979 Organisation of African Unity (OAU) conclude?

Answer 4

“Africa… is unstable to any significant growth rate or satisfactory index of wellbeing”

(Young)