From one of the most well-known and controversial experts writing on Africa today comes AFRICA UNCHAINED: The Blueprint For Africa's Future, by celebrated economist George Ayittey. In this fascinating new book, Ayittey points a finger at what he thinks is wrong with the current situation in Africa, and prescribes a plan that will enable the continent to change and develop.

Why haven't Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: Africa is poor because it is not free. The freedoms Africans enjoyed in their traditional systems were snatched from them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with similar oppressive practices. As corruption, repression, and war surged, Africa's infrastructure crumbled, states collapsed, and investors fled. Instead of bemoaning the myriad difficulties facing the continent today, Ayittey boldly proposes a program of development - a way forward - for Africa.

AFRICA UNCHAINED seeks to break out of the shackles that inhibit honest debate on Africa. The book breaks with conventions, boots political correctness out of the window, shatters myths, and turns contemporary wisdom about Africa completely upside down. Ayittey investigates how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions, and argues forcefully that Africa should build and expand upon traditions of free markets and free trade rather than continuing to use exploitative economic structures. This path-breaking book offers the most highly revolutionary plan ever proposed for moving Africa forward.

About The Author
George Ayittey, a native of Ghana, is a distinguished economist in residence at American University and President of the Free Africa Foundation. He is the author of Africa Betrayal and Africa in Chaos (Palgrave/Macmillan).

Africa Unchained
The Blueprint for Africa's Future
By George Ayittey
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 1-4039-6359-2