The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Resources and Development

This handbook advances an interdisciplinary framework for understanding Africa’s resource endowments—human, natural, ideological, theological, and philanthropic—and their synergistic roles in sustainable development. Integrating perspectives from political economy, development studies, anthropology, theology, philosophy, geography, law, and public policy, it interrogates prevailing extractivist paradigms and proposes analytically rigorous alternatives. Chapters combine comparative case studies, mixed-methods analyses, and critical theory to examine institutional dynamics, governance architectures, value chains, civic and faith-based mobilizations, and Africa’s engagements with external actors. By mapping the co-production of resources and development outcomes, the volume offers methodological depth and policy-relevant insights. It will appeal to scholars, advanced students and policymakers in African studies, Development Studies, Economics, and Political Science.