Review of African Political Economy, 30(95): 5– 10. Africa, imperialism and new forms of accumulation. From that point on, access to finance became a key policing mechanism directed at African populations.’ (Bracking and Harrison 2003 Bracking, S. The majority of the newly independent states had been effectively delivered into at least 20 years of indentured labor. In Africa, write Sarah Bracking and Graham Harrison, ‘1979 marked a radical change in global economic policy, inaugurated with the “Volcker Shock” (so called after Paul Volcker, then chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve) when the United States suddenly and dramatically raised interest rates, increased the cost of African debt precipitously, since a majority of debt stock was held in dollars. Here Arthur Lewis' 1954 publication ‘Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour’ perhaps most explicitly gave justification to such plans. Today the figure would be slightly higher, even though the director of the department of agriculture still cites the 6% figure (Interview, Imataa Akayombokwa, 23 July 2007).

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