“Africa in Transformation engages several African mega narratives and stitches together rich reflections on Africa’s resilience and brazen self-renewal. Carlos Lopes interrogates the anatomy of the African experience in a methodical analysis uniting economic history and literary interludes to come to grips with the making of the current debates on the ‘Africa rising’ narrative. He does this in ten thought-through chapters linking the past and present, where structural economic transformation, climate change and the comparative political economy of late industrialization, particularly in China, take a centre stage. Below the surface is a people-centred book that energises the ethos of a binding social contract within and across states for the common good. Brilliantly counterintuitive, a must-read for everyone who cares about Africa’s past, present and future.” – Mohamed Salih, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
