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| Preface | |
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| Advisory Board | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History | |
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| Did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Underdevelop Africa? | |
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| Yes: Paul E. Lovejoy, from "The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature," Journal of American History (1989) | |
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| No: John Thornton, from Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 1992) | |
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| Have the Contributions of Africans Been Recognized for Developing New World Agriculture? | |
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| Yes: Duncan Clinch Heyward, from Seed from Madagascar (University of North Carolina Press, 1937) | |
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| No: Judith Carney, from "Agroenvironments and Slave Strategies in the Diffusion of Rice Culture to the Americas," in Karl S. Zimmerer and Thomas J. Bassett, eds., Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies (Guilford Press, 2003) | |
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| Is European Subjugation of Africans Ultimately Explained by Differences in Land, Plant, and Animal Resources? | |
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| Yes: Jared Diamond, from "Why Europeans Were the Ones to Colonize Sub-Saharan Africa," Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (W. W. Norton, 1999) | |
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| No: Lucy Jarosz, from "A Human Geographer's Response to Guns, Germs and Steel: The Case of Agrarian Development and Change in Madagascar," Antipode (2003) | |
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| Did Colonialism Distort Contemporary African Development? | |
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| Yes: Marcus Colchester, from "Slave and Enclave: Towards a Political Ecology of Equatorial Africa," The Ecologist (September/October 1993) | |
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| No: Robin M. Grier, from "Colonial Legacies and Economic Growth," Public Choice (March 1999) | |
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| Development | |
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| Have Free-Market Policies Worked for Africa? | |
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| Yes: Gerald Scott, from "Who Has Failed Africa? IMF Measures or the African Leadership?" Journal of Asian and African Studies (August 1998) | |
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| No: Thandika Mkandawire, from "The Global Economic Context," in B. Wisner, C. Toulmin, and R. Chitiga, eds., Towards a New Map of Africa (Earthscan, 2005) | |
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| Are Abundant Mineral and Energy Resources a Catalyst for African Development? | |
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| Yes: Oliver Maponga and Philip Maxwell, from "The Fall and Rise of African Mining," Minerals and Energy (2001) | |
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| No: Sunday Dare, from "A Continent in Crisis: Africa and Globalization," Dollars and Sense (July/August 2001) | |
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| Is Increasing Chinese Investment Good for African Development? | |
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| Yes: Ali Zafar, from "The Growing Relationship Between China and Sub-Saharan Africa: Macroeconomic, Trade, Investment and Aid Links," World Bank Research Observer (Spring 2007) | |
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| No: Padraig R. Carmody and Francis Y. Owusu, from "Competing Hegemons? Chinese versus American Geo-Economic Strategies in Africa," Political Geography (2007) | |
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| Agriculture, Food, and the Environment | |
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| Does the Conflict in the Darfur Region of Sudan Have Environmental Causes? | |
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| Yes: UN Environment Programme, from "Conflict and the Environment," Sudan: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment (June 2007) | |
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| No: Lydia Polgreen, from "A Godsend for Darfur, or a Curse?" New York Times (July 22, 2007) | |
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| Is Food Production in Africa Capable of Keeping Up with Population Growth? | |
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| Yes: Michael Mortimore and Mary Tiffen, from "Population and Environment in Time Perspective: The Machakos Story," People and Environment in Africa (John Wiley & Sons, 1995) | |
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| No: John Murton, from "Population Growth and Poverty in Machakos District, Kenya," The Geographical Journal (March 1999) | |
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| Does African Agriculture Need a Green Revolution? | |
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| Yes: Kofi A. Annan, from "Remarks on the Launch of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa at the World Economic Forum," in Cape Town, South Africa (June 14, 2007) | |
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| No: Carol B. Thompson, from "Africa: Green Revolution or Rainbow Revolution?" Foreign Policy In Focus (July 17, 2007) | |
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| Is Sub-Saharan Africa Experiencing a Deforestation Crisis? | |
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| Yes: Kevin M. Cleaver and Gotz A. Schreiber, from Reversing the Spiral: The Population, Agriculture, and Environmental Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa (The World Bank, 1994) | |
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| No: Thomas J. Bassett and Koli Bi Zueli, from "Environmental Discourses and the Ivorian Savanna," Annals of the Association of American Geographers (March 2000) | |
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| Social Issues | |
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| Should Female Genital Cutting Be Accepted as a Cultural Practice? | |
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| Yes: Fuambai Ahmadu, from "Rites and Wrongs: Excision and Power among Kono Women of Sierra Leone," in B. Shell-Duncan and Y. Hernlund, eds., Female 'Circumcision' in Africa Culture, Controversy, and Change (Lynne Reiner, 2001) | |
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| No: Liz Creel et al., from "Abandoning Female Genital Cutting: Prevalence, Attitudes, and Efforts to End the Practice," A Report of the Population Reference Bureau (August 2001) | |
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| Are Women in a Position to Challenge Male Power Structures in Africa? | |
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| Yes: Richard A. Schroeder, from Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia (University of California Press, 1997) | |
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| No: Human Rights Watch, from "Double Standards: Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya," A Report of Human Rights Watch (March 2003) | |
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| Is the International Community Focusing on HIV/AIDS Treatment at the Expense of Prevention in Africa? | |
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| Yes: Andrew Creese, Katherine Floyd, Anita Alban, and Lorna Guinness, from "Cost-Effectiveness of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence," The Lancet (2002) | |
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| No: Philip J. Hilts, from "Changing Minds: Botswana Beats Back AIDS," in Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Challenge (Penguin Books, 2005) | |
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| Should Developed Countries Provide Debt Relief to the Poorest, Indebted African Nations? | |
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| Yes: Dorothy Logie and Michael Rowson, from "Poverty and Health: Debt Relief Could Help Achieve Human Rights," Health and Human Rights (1998) | |
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| No: Robert Snyder, from "Proclaiming Jubilee-For Whom?" The Christian Century (June 1999) | |
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| Politics, Governance, and Conflict Resolution | |
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| Is Multi-Party Democracy Taking Hold in Africa? | |
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| Yes: Michael Bratton and Robert Mattes, from "Support for Democracy in Africa: Intrinsic or Instrumental" British Journal of Political Science (July 2001) | |
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| No: Joel D. Barkan, from "The Many Faces of Africa: Democracy Across a Varied Continent," Harvard International Review (Summer 2002) | |
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| Is Foreign Assistance Useful for Fostering Democracy in Africa? | |
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| Yes: Arthur A. Goldsmith, from "Donors, Dictators and Democrats in Africa," The Journal of Modern African Studies (2001) | |
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| No: Julie Hearn, from "Aiding Democracy? Donors and Civil Society in South Africa," Third World Quarterly (2000) | |
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| Is Corruption the Result of Poor African Leadership? | |
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| Yes: Robert I. Rotberg, from "The Roots of Africa's Leadership Deficit," Compass (2003) | |
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| No: Arthur A. Goldsmith, from "Risk, Rule, and Reason: Leadership in Africa," Public Administration and Development (2001) | |
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| Are African-Led Peacekeeping Missions More Effective than International Peacekeeping Efforts in Africa? | |
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| Yes: David C. Gompert, from "For a Capability to Protect: Mass Killing, the African Union and NATO," Survival (Spring 2006) | |
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| No: Nsonurua J. Udombana, from "Still Playing Dice with Lives: Darfur and Security Council Resolution 1706," Third World Quarterly (2007) | |
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| Contributors | |