Kwame Akonor is an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA), where he teaches International Relations, Comparative Politics and African Political Economy. He directs the University's Africana Center and is also director of the African Development Institute, a New York based think tank. He is the author of Africa and IMF Conditionality (Routledge, 2006).
'A concise, factually rich and systematically structured overview of the most relevant multinational institutions of Africa's economic development.' -Kwame Akonor, New Agenda, Issue 41, Spring 2011