01:32 Harry Cross: Accounting for monetary sovereignty.
18:22 Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven : Financialization on the African continent: Partly Financializing, Fully Subordinate?
34:45 Tony Obeng: The Quest for Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa: Back to Nkrumah’s Charge to ‘Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom’.
49:30 Okoli Chukwuma: Africa and the Globalization Bargain: Towards a Collective Economic Sovereignty
Debate moderated by NADA Trigui
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Harry Cross is a doctoral candidate in Durham University. His research focuses on banking and financial institutions in Sudan after independence. and particularly the relationship between financial power and political power in postcolonial Africa.
Al Chukwuma Okoli (B.Sc., M.Sc., Political Science), holds a Ph.D in Defence and Strategy. He is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Federal University Lafia, Nigeria. He has consulted for UNWomen, The Conversation, Centre for Democracy and Development, National Open University of Nigeria. He is a double laureate of CODESRIA (GI: 2018; HEPI: 2019) as well as a research fellow of IFRA-Nigeria. He specializes in Liberal Political Ecology, Security Studies and Gender & Development. He could be reached at: okochu007@yahoo.com
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at the University of York and holds a PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research. Her work centers on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, and political economy analysis of international development policy. She has approached the role of finance in several ways, for example through critical assessments of the role financial inclusion in development, and through articles and reports on the role of sovereign debt in economic development. She is interested in unpacking the debates about dependency theory, ultimately to investigate its usefulness in order to understand processes of economic and human development. She is also the founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics, Associate Editor of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, member of the Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics, member of the editorial board of Third World Thematics, founder and steering group member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics and founding advisory board member of Rethinking Economics – Norway. Twitter handle: @ingridharvold
