Part I: The contemporary global economic and monetary order
1. China’s Finance and Africa’s Economic and Monetary Sovereignty - Radhika Desai
Part II: Challenges to monetary sovereignty in the postcolonial periphery
2. Banking, Business, and Sovereignty in Sudan (1956-2019) - Harry Cross
3. Money, Finance, and Capital Accumulation in Zimbabwe - Francis Garikayi
4. Monetary Policy in Algeria (1999-2019): An economic and monetary history approach - Fatiha Talahite
Part III: Increasing sovereignty through monetary unions?
5. The West African CFA Franc Zone as a Double Monetary Union: Loss of economic competitiveness and anti-developmental path-dependencies - Carla Coburger
6. The CFA Franc Under Neoliberal Monetary Policy: A labour-focused approach - Hannah Cross
7. From Central Bank Independence to Government Dependence: Monetary colonialism in the Eurozone -Thomas Fazi
8. Geopolitics of Finance in Africa: Birth of financial centres, not monetary unions - Elizabeth Cobbett
Part IV: Alternatives
9. The Great Paradox: Liberalism Destroys the Market Economy: The pitfalls of the neoliberal recipe for African economic and monetary sovereignty - Heiner Flassbeck
10. Food Sovereignty, the National Question, and Post-colonial Development in Africa - Max Ajl
11. Being Poor in the Current Monetary System: Implications of foreign exchange shortage for African economies and possible solutions - Anne Loscher
12. The German Push for Local Currency Bond Markets in African Countries: A pathway to economic sovereignty or increased economic dependency? - Frauke Banse