The Politics of Hunger

This book looks at sub-Saharan Africa with one purpose - to analyse the reasons for its citizens' poverty. It sheds some light upon the balance between internal factors (governance; economy; war and conflict) and external factors (post-colonialism and the neoliberal global economy) that have affected sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows that the problem of poverty is not inevitable, nor due to anything inherent in sub-Saharan African citizens, nor is it the result of lack of resources but rather it is the outcome of particular circumstances designed to benefit the controllers of the current world order - whether within or outside sub-Saharan Africa - rather than sub-Saharan Africans themselves. The book, which benefits from chapters on individual states provided by students of Manchester Metropolitan University, will be of interest to anyone that is interested in the politics and economics of Africa, or that has an interest in world poverty and its causes in general.

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... is a Principal Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University.She is the author of two books: The EU and British Democracy: towards convergence (Macmillan 2000) and Legitimating the EU (Palgrave 2007). She is particularly keen on publishing students' work - after all their hard work!