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The Lessons of Africa's Market Tradition
Author(s) -
Ayittey George B. N.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1986.tb01805.x
Subject(s) - oppression , indigenous , george (robot) , sociology , development economics , economic history , political science , economics , history , law , ecology , politics , biology , art history
Africa has a lengthy tradition of markets which could be adapted to provide an indigenous solution to economic conflict in southern Africa. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian economist at present Professor of Economics, University of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, contrasts the 20th‐century oppression of black by black with the lessons of history.