Conclusion: Agriculture: Africa’s Engine for Development and Prospects for Industrialisation
摘要
This chapter concludes the book Agriculture, Autonomous Development and Prospects for Industrialisation in Africa. This is accomplished by offering general historical and theoretical comments about Africa’s agriculture, possibilities for development, and prospects for industrialisation. As this chapter illustrates, this book is located at the intersection of three strands of scholarly literature: literature on agriculture, literature on development, and literature on industrialisation. As a general trend, these three strands of literature do not sufficiently engage with each other, and this book has contributed to addressing this gap using examples across Sub-Saharan Africa. This chapter draws from the chapters that comprise this book. It also benefits from a huge body of literature on agriculture, development, and industrialisation to summarise the book’s key themes. Overall, this chapter shows how agriculture could intersect with industrialisation to bring about development in Africa.