Accounting for Colonialism: Measuring Unjust Enrichment and Damages in Africa

The book examines the exploitation of Africa through colonialism and imperialism, providing estimates for reparations and rethinking international development assistance policy. It highlights the wrongful benefits and damages from 600 years of international harm to the African continent.

Format: Hardback
Length: 383 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The book examines the exploitation of Africa through six centuries of colonialism and imperialism, building on previous qualitative analyses and introducing new ways to measure coerced income and wealth transfers to Europe and North America. It provides estimates that will be helpful in understanding the growing debate on reparations and contributes to rethinking international development assistance policy. It establishes a basis for improved estimates of the gains from past and current practices that worked against African economic, social, and political institutions and systems. The book showcases a variety of scholars with diverse perspectives and establishes, for the first time, the extent of wrongful benefits and damages from 600 years of international harm to the African continent.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031328039
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023