Charging that there has been too much talk and too little action regarding Africa's poverty and underdevelopment, historians and social scientists examine the empirics of the production and reproduction of poverty and underdevelopment across Africa in a fashion that warrants urgent pragmatic policy attention and a quest for workable homegrown solutions to persistent predicaments. Among their topics are the impoverishment of Africa by the West's multinational corporations: a case of multinational corporations in Nigeria's delta region, foraging to survive: poverty and shifting consumer dynamics in rural Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008, the emergence of the cycle of poverty and traditional systems for poverty eradication in Yorubaland: insights from the biblical Ruth and Naomi, disempowerment and impoverishment of African communities: re-visiting the effects of land grabbing by foreigners in Africa, and corruption and failures of various poverty alleviation programs: a historical appraisal of Nigeria from 1985 to 2015. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation 2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
