Capital Violence is a bold examination of the global economic order and its calculated assault on Africa’s sovereignty.
In this compelling work, Cambridge-trained development scholar Wavinya Makai reveals how power operates not through war or conquest, but through policy, debt, and diplomacy.

Moving from the corridors of the IMF and World Bank to the halls of African parliaments, Wavinya traces how colonialism evolved into a system of economic containment; where contracts replaced chains, and development became a weapon of control.

With data, history, and the insights of Africa’s own thinkers; Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Sylvia Tamale, Chinua Achebe, Samir Amin,Thandika Mkandawire, Amin Mama, Achille Mbemba, Ali Mazrui, Micere Mugo, among others, Capital Violence exposes how elite complicity and foreign interests have turned the continent into a theatre of managed poverty.

This is not simply an analysis; it is a demand for intellectual and economic sovereignty.
It challenges economists, policy-makers, and citizens to redefine progress on Africa’s own terms.

Capital Violence inaugurates The Makainian Canon, a new series shaping African thought for the twenty-first century.