The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that have often ignored Africa’s diversity in their rush to peddle si...

Between the late 1940s and the early 1990s, Vella Pillay made a major contribution to South Africa's liberation struggle. This article focuses on three aspects of his contribution: as a revolutionary procuring funds and training for the ANC's military struggle, as a leader of the anti-apartheid and boycott movements, and as a highly trained intellectual producing e...