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Britain After Empire w/ Kojo Koram

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The Myth of Development in the Post-Colonial Period

The idea of development was useful for masking the differences that are clearly visible between what we now call the global south, or was then called the third world. But i think now we are seeing the failure of that narrative to really play itself out and instead seeing what i try ao call in the book, following very much from m a and susanne sar, this idea of the colonial boomerang.

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