The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa

Chapter 1 Introduction: New Directions in the History of Business and Development in Post-Colonial Africa

Chapter 2 Business, the Commonwealth and the Rhetoric of Development: The Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 1945–1974

Chapter 3 Adapting to Independence: The East Africa Association, Post-Colonial Business Networks and Economic Development

Chapter 4 Belgian Firms, Development Plans and the Independence of the Belgian Congo

Chapter 5 Oil Companies as Agents of Post-Colonial Relations: France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara

Chapter 6 A Partner in Progress? Shell-BP’s Development Role in Nigeria During the Transition to Independence

Chapter 7 The ‘Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies’: The Commonwealth Development Corporation and British Business in Post-Colonial Africa

Chapter 8 Decolonising Finance, Africanising Banking

Chapter 9 The European Development Fund, a Dowry for French Companies?

Chapter 10 Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975

Chapter 11 European Private Sector and African Firms in EU-ACP Development Cooperation (1975–2000)