Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Classics_Gift_Guide With pressure mounting from all

With pressure mounting from all sides

Demi Baguettes

**Winner of the 2023 Schneider Family Book Award

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author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Nest

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance Classics_Gift_Guide With pressure mounting from allA bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge For centuries, Westerners have tried to fix African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great