Foreword / Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs & Frannie A. Léautier -- Introduction / Patrick Develtere, Ignace Pollet & Fredrick O. Wanyama Executive Summary -- Cooperative development in Africa up to the 1990s / Patrick Develtere -- Renaissance of African cooperatives in the 21st century: lessons from the field / Patrick Develtere & Ignace Pollet -- The qualitative and quantitative growth of the cooperative movement in Kenya / Fredrick O. Wanyama -- Growth without structures: the cooperative movement in Ethiopia / Teigist Lemma -- Uganda: starting all over again / Herment A. Mrema -- The cooperative sector in Ghana: small and big business / Anthony K. Tsekpo -- Political and Genuine Cooperatives in Enugu State: Nigeria / Anselm Enete -- Bad Memories, Good Prospects: Cooperatives in Niger / Sanda Maman Sani -- The Egyptian cooperative movement: between State and Market / Mohamed H. Abdel Aal -- Surviving on the islands: cooperatives in Cape Verde / João Gomes Mendonça -- Jump-starting the Rwandan cooperative movement / Jean Damascène Nyamwasa -- Cooperatives in South Africa: a movement (re-)emerging / Jan Theron -- The Senegalese cooperative movement: embedded in the social Economy / Abdou Salam Fall -- The invisible, but resilient African cooperatives: some concluding remarks / Fredrick O. Wanyama.