The issue of development in Africa is an extremely lively discourse, not only among academics but also among development experts and politicians. Using extensive archival data both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Bekeh Ukelina puts development in historical perspective by arguing that the problems of development in contemporary Africa cannot be understood without understanding its antecedents in the late colonial period. The book focuses on colonial development planning in Nigeria, and discusses how ideological bias and structural imbalances within the colonial system explain the failure of development planning, and the subsequent trajectory of development processes in Nigeria. Tracing the late colonial development approach to Joseph Chamberlain’s ideology of “constructive imperialism,” Ukelina explores colonial development shifts from the 1890s to the 1940s and suggests that Chamberlain’s idea of constructive imperialism called for increased investment in the colonies in the 1890s. This idea, according to Ukelina, was rejected by the imperial government and the first phase of the colonial occupation continued to be characterised by imperial exploitation of colonies without any substantial resource investment.

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第二次殖民占领：发展规划、农业和英国在尼日利亚的统治遗产，作者 Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina

非洲的发展问题不仅在学术界而且在发展专家和政治家之间都是非常活跃的讨论。Bekeh Ukelina 使用尼日利亚和英国的大量档案数据，从历史的角度看待发展，认为如果不了解殖民晚期的前因，就无法理解当代非洲的发展问题。该书侧重于尼日利亚的殖民发展规划，并讨论了殖民体系内的意识形态偏见和结构失衡如何解释发展规划的失败，以及随后尼日利亚发展进程的轨迹。追溯约瑟夫·张伯伦的“建设性帝国主义，” Ukelina 探讨了从 1890 年代到 1940 年代的殖民发展转变，并表明张伯伦的建设性帝国主义思想呼吁在 1890 年代增加对殖民地的投资。据 Ukelina 说，这个想法被帝国政府拒绝，殖民占领的第一阶段继续以帝国对殖民地的剥削为特征，没有任何大量的资源投资。