The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa

Véronique Dimier
 is Professor at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. She held the Chaire Gutenberg in 2015 at SAGE, the Research Centre on Society, Stakeholders and Government in Europe, at the University of Strasbourg. She has worked extensively on French and British colonial administrations and on the second career of French colonial officials, most notably in the development field.  She is the author of
Le
Gouvernement des Colonies, Regards Croisés Franco-Britanniques
(2004), and
The Invention of a European Development Bureaucracy: Recycling Empire
(2014).

Sarah Stockwell 
 is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at King’s College London, UK. Her research focuses on the history of British decolonisation, especially in Africa. Her publications include
The Business of Decolonization. British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast
(2000),
The British End of the British Empire
(2018), and, as editor,
The British Empire. Themes and Perspectives
(2007) and, with L.J. Butler,
The Wind of Change: Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization
(2013).