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SEMINAR 1
The Political Economy of Mozambique
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 13:00 Joburg time (12:00 Paris time)
Chair: Nicolas Pons-Vignon
With presentations by
Ruth Castel-Branco (Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), Wits) on “The machamba is for life”. The contradictions of the peasantry in Mozambique in a context of precarity.
Patrick Bond (University of Johannesburg) on “French fossil imperialism, South African sub-imperialism and anti-imperial resistance”
Discussion by:
Boaventura Monjane, Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, Co-founder and director of Alternactiva – Acção Pel Emancipação Social
SEMINAR 2 Developmental States in Africa
Tuesday, 14 February 2023 13:00 Joburg time (12:00 Paris time)
Chair: Ruth Castel-Branco (SCIS, Wits)
With presentations by:
Sibulele Nkunzi (Wits) on “Is the emergence of a national industrialist class possible in Africa?” The Kenyan debate through the prism of the Metal and Engineering Corporation (METEC) in Ethiopia
Nicolas Pons-Vignon (SUPSI) on Anatomy of the failure of the South African developmental state
Bruno Tinel (Wits) on Development economics: Hirschman’s revenge. A critical discussion of Arkebe, Cramer and Sender’s African Economic Development. Evidence, Theory, Policy
Discussion by:
Alexis Saludjian, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
