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* Joseph Mensah (ed), at the University of Johannesburg.
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NOTES

[1] Which is not to say that everyone was getting richer in the rest of the world-the gap between the richest and the poorest also increased over this period, and Mensah notes islands of wealth within the poorest puddles.
[2] A weakness in several chapters is an absolutely uncritical use of David Harvey’s phrase ‘accumulation by dispossession’. It is not wrong as a description of the daylight robbery of Africa but as several contributors to this journal have pointed out it is more problematic to see it as a form of primitive accumulation rather than some bonus loot on the side.