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The authors examine the structural inequality of the global financial architecture, mapping Africa's exposure to global economies within the context of African political economy; the impact of the financial crisis on Africa; the ideological institutions underpinning economic oppression in Africa, in particular maldeveloped export-oriented economies interlocked with multinational corporations; and social protest emerging as a response to inequality.

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Patrick Bond is a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and the director of the Centre for Civil Society. He is also the author of Talk Left, Walk Right: South Afica's Frustrated Global Reforms (Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004) and Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance (London, Zed Books, 2003). Khadija Sharife is an investigative journalist and researcher with the Tax Justice Network and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society in South Africa. Eunice Sahle is Associate Professor in African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Jessie Lazar has an MA in Development Studies focusing on Social Policy and Civil Society from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. Her Masters thesis specialised in uBuntu as radical democratic governance toward an integrated Africa, and she is currently preparing for her PhD on a comparative study of Cuba and the former Transkei.

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