Africa since 1940 : The Past of the Present (Paperback, 2 Revised edition)

1. Introduction; 2. Workers, peasants, and the challenge to colonial rule; 3. Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities of the post-war moment; 4. Ending empire and imagining the future; Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world; 5. Development and disappointment: economic and social change in an unequal world, 1945?2018; 6. White rule, armed struggle, and beyond; 7. The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state; 8. Twenty-first century Africa; Index.