Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more...

Based on comprehensive empirical studies, the paper identifies key reforms and defines strategies to enhance the competitiveness of the cotton sector in West and Central Africa. Lessons learned from the 1990s suggest that transferring public property to private enterprises is not enough, by...

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tried clich "the more things change,...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION TAX POLICY IN THE CEMAC AND THE WAEMU BEFORE HARMONIZATION -- III. HARMONIZATION OF DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION TAXES IN FRANCOPHONE CENTRAL AND WESTERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: POLICY FRAMEWORK -- IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF HARMONIZED DOMESTIC...