Africa's Lost Decade

t has been more than 30 years since the Structural Adjustment era swept across the African continent, but its impact on various economies cannot be discounted. Many researchers now refer to this period as “Africa’s Lost Decade”, due to the erosion of economic gains made during the post-colonial years. Commentators on the post-colonial shift towards neoliberalism have maintained that African countries’ adoption of World Bank-recommended Structural Adjustment P

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