Africa is still very significantly constrained. We are through a variety of mechanisms. Not just we have to institutionally mirror other countries, but there are also the constraints of financing. And it takes a lot of political and ideological and uninstitutional work to do with the institutionaling model that has been imposed on us. So yes, there are different ways in which we are different,. One that has to do with a marketaxination mechanism as well as one that can sometimes be more explicitly colonial.
Olúfẹmi Táíwò guest hosts an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today's Wall Street Consensus.
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