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  • 1 - The Foundations for a New Beginning

  • from Part I - The Problem
  • Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki
  • Book:
    Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
    Published online:
    27 March 2020
    Print publication:
    26 March 2020, pp 38-62

  • Summary

    Beyond questions of culture, other modes of explanation for the persistence of inequality in Africa have been similarly simplistic, whether they relate to the lack of (human) capital or the presence – indeed abundance and dependence – of natural capital and the resource curse (as this introduction tries to make clear). More systematic and comprehensive explanations need to be developed. Doing so must involve building new foundations, but the question is where to begin: How do we build the conceptual foundations for a new beginning and how can these be defended or reinforced against counter currents? When built, what sorts of arguments can they support? It is these questions that this chapter successively answers in three sections respectively examining the nature of the foundations that can be built for a new beginning, the aims, paradigm, and arguments of the book, and the overall planned structure of the book.