Manufacturing Africa: Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa/Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa/Industrialisation in the Third World: The Need for Alternative Strategies.

Reviews three books on the economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. "Manufacturing Africa: Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa," by Roger C. Riddell; "Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa," edited by James Pickett and Hans Singer; "Industrialisation in the Third World: The Need for Alternative Strategies," edited by Meine Pieter Van Dijk and Henrik Secher Marcussen.