Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa

Name: Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa | The Neoliberal Period
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The Neoliberal Period

Joerg Wiegratz(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 21. Juni 2024

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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of economic crimes and market irregularities, including matters of trickery, illicit trade, parallel economy, economies of violence and criminalisation of the poor in neoliberal Africa. It interrogates economic crime as a product of neoliberal reform and transformation (as well as of historical structures). It unpacks crime as a social - and particularly as a political-economic - phenomenon of cap-italism. The book brings together a collection of research articles, briefings and blog posts that were published over a period of nearly 40 years (1986-2023), in the acclaimed journal Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) and on its website roape.net.

Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, including a foreword by Yusuf K. Serunkuma and an afterword by Laureen Snider, the volume explores what these eco-nomic crimes have to do with, and can tell us about power, class, accumulation, depend-ency, (under)development, state-business relations and capitalist transformation on the continent. In so doing, it sheds new light on the co-production of these crimes by a range of actors from the realms of economy, politics and international development, including international financial institutions and other donors. It responds to the imperative to advance the analysis of the link between capitalism and crime in Africa as more countries across the continent become fully capitalist societies.

Illustrating the relevance of African cases to debates in and across various disciplines - concerning, for example, corporate and white-collar crimes, state crimes, crimes of the powerful, (il)legality, regulation and social harm - this volume engages with a variety of literature to explain economic crimes as phenomena of global and local capitalism. It provides readers from academia, government, business, media, civil society and education with a striking source of information and analysis.

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"In this critical, conceptually rich, and thought-provoking collection, Joerg Wiegratz has put together a unique and balanced combination of different types of previously published analyses - in combination with a number of new and updated texts - which are seamlessly intertwined. The collection, by focusing on a wide range of manifestations of crime, illegal markets, fraud and corruption, turns the criminological spotlight on an extremely interesting but largely neglected context. Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa: The Neoliberal Period will most certainly prompt a fruitful debate as it offers a convincing case about how neoliberalism has acted as a major enabler of criminality through deregulation and restructuring programmes that have been introduced by supranational actors. This is a mandatory reading for academics, law enforcement, and policy makers".

- Professor Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK

"Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa brings a unique perspective to understanding the intricate operation of capitalist forces in Africa. The papers in this collection, written by a combination of senior and younger scholars studying capitalist dynamics in Africa, give readers a rare opportunity to encounter the often-concealed side of African capitalism. Written through the unfiltered lens of radical political economy, the essays have laid bare the different economic crimes, from the fixing of commodity prices (the famous London Fix), illicit capital flows, fake drugs to the fronting of conservation as an instrument for looting of natural resources and accumulation. The volume challenges the conventional explanations of the sources and causes of Africa's economic challenges by exposing and centring economic crime as an integral part of capitalist formation on the continent. Being the first analysis of a wide range of economic crime, the collection offers an illuminating exposition of the inner mechanisms of Africa's encounter with capitalism. This is a timely intervention and valuable contribution to the study of Africa's economic challenges."

- Professor Horman Chitonge, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

"Fraud and corruption in the majority world have been central to the predatory project of capitalism and colonialism. Sometimes used as a legitimating narrative for intervention, but often used simply to expropriate and extract value, fraud is a core technique of power over the Global South. Joerg Wiegratz has put together a definitive collection of essays that helps us understand how fraud and corruption sustain economic domination by the richest states and the richest corporations over the people. Nowhere is this technique of colonisation more enduring than it is in Africa. This is why Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa is a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary capitalism and colonialism."

- Professor David Whyte, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Foreword Introduction-Criminogenic capitalism in Africa, 2023: History, reality, and analysis Part A: Fraud in neoliberalised political economies 1. Cartels as 'fraud'? Insights from collusion in southern and East Africa in the fertiliser and cement industries 2. The rise of microcredit 'control fraud' in post-apartheid South Africa: from state-enforced to market-driven exploitation of the black community 3. Black economic empowerment policy in Durban, eThekwini, South Africa: economic justice, economic fraud and 'leaving money on the table' 4. Fake drugs: health, wealth and regulation in Nigeria 5. The political economy of intellectual property rights: the paradox of Article 27 exemplified in Ghana 6. Anti-fraud Measures in Southern Africa Part B: Going Into the Archive I - Texts From Roape.net (2015-2023) 7. Financialisation and Illegal Capital Flight 8. The London Fix: Price-Making in Capitalism 9. Beyond 'Capture', the Gupta Coup d'etat of the South African State: A historic repeat of state, finance, and global capitalism dynamics? 10. Grand Theft Sandton: Political corruption and corporate crime as South African capitalism 11. Reforming Sonangol: Oil, corruption, and the politics of economic reform in Angola 12. Capitalism, war and plunder in the Horn of Africa 13. Exporting corporate crime with impunity 14. Being cheated by your own relatives 15. 'Stealing back' - Uganda's Nasser Road, political posters, forgery and resistance Part C: Going Into the Archive II - Texts from the Print Journal (1986-2022) 16. The primitive accumulation of capital in a neo-colony: the Nigerian case (published in 1986) 17. Understanding African Politics (1995) 18. Misunderstanding African Politics: Corruption & the Governance Agenda (1998) 19. Between Governance & Underdevelopment: Accumulation & Africa's 'Catastrophic Corruption' (2000) 20. A Back Door to Globalisation? Structural Adjustment, Globalisation & Transborder Trade in West Africa (2003) 21. Evaluating Privatisation in Zambia: A Tale of Two Processes (2000) 22. Conflict in Central Africa: Clandestine Networks & Regional/Global Configurations (2003) 23. Beyond minerals: broadening 'economies of violence' in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (2013) 24. The politics of incontournables: entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo's mineral markets (2021) 25. 'Illegal' gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa (2022) 26. Crony capitalist deals and investment in South Africa's platinum belt: a case study of Anglo American Platinum's scramble for mining rights, 1995-2019 (2022) 27. International crude oil theft: elite predatory tendencies in Nigeria (2015) 28. Rentierism and security privatisation in the Nigerian petroleum industry: assessment of oil pipeline surveillance and protection contracts (2018) 29. Regulating Illicit Trade in Natural Resources: The Role of Regional Actors in West Africa (2003) 30. 'The first dragon to slay': unpacking Kenya's war on drugs (2016) 31. Beyond forceful measures: Tanzania's 'war on poaching' needs diversified strategies more than militarised tactics (2017) 32. Historical roots of militarised conservation: the case of Uganda (2021) 33. Anti-fraud measures in Western Africa and commentary on research findings across the three regions analysed (2022) Comments on Capitalism and Economic Crime in Africa: The Neoliberal Period

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