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Rethinking Development in Africa in the 21st Century
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Author: Busani Mpofu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1789201772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Rethinking Development Challenges for Public Policy
Author: K. Hanson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0230393276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers topical issues for Africa's development, economics and politics of climate change, water management, public service delivery, and delivering aid. The authors argue that these issues should be included in the post-MDG paradigm and add an important voice to recent moves by academics and practitioners to engage with each other.
Rethinking Development Strategies for Africa
Author: David Suze Manda
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-12-30
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9781456365066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a research on development theories, practices, approaches, and strategies that bring some alternatives to the mainstream discourse on development in Africa. Africa, being the sole continent that is still draining behind all the other continents, has been a place where different strategies and theories of development were applied or tried. The apparent failure of moving ahead brings to critical minds a sense of questioning whether it is time to rethink these strategies. Knowing that Africa is a continent with various countries, with wide-ranging challenges, with different needs, with numerous potentials ranging from its abundant natural resources to the untapped human resources, it has been my quest to understand this complex continent and to give opportunity to the reader a grasp of whole array of possibilities in rethinking strategies of development for this continent. This entails broadening the development discourse and practices from economic approaches to all other areas such as human development, cultural situations, and sustainable development. It also involves blending scholarly works with local creative solutions. From the wide range of examples in the book, from all corners of the earth, one will discover how it presents a holistic understanding of development discourse and practice. This is where theories and local realities come together as an alternative contribution to the development field. I emphasize on the importance of combining academic theories to the local African incentives - such as creativity, sense of innovation, and problem-solving attitudes that some Africans hold -; the desirability of strengthening South-South cooperation (including the role of China) -, the huge impulse potential of civil society that can make to development, especially given the much needed growth of middle classes; the urgency of improving the poor and battered infrastructure, and special attention to global warming, to which Africa is particularly sensitive ; and improve the institutions in place to continue betting on individual leadership, among other valuable suggestions. Research in development is a continuous commitment to discover different possibilities and creative innovation. It is with that approach that I seek a deeper understanding. The book still goes along with the improvement of economic, political and social issues related to Africa. By advocating for a holistic approach, I emphasize on the need to foster/boost the local creative people, to understand their issues, and to empower local entrepreneurs in order to address questions of particular contexts. At the same time, these local people need to collaborate and gain some other knowledge from development experts. I am fervently encouraging African leaders, academics, and the international community, to blend academia and creativity of the local people on the ground in order to deepen the sustainability of Africa's future. My recommendations are applicable not only in the development arena, but also in other spheres of human life. They are also relevant to both academics and laymen in the development field. I look forward to integrating my research in the daily life of Africans and the academic world.
Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa
Author: T.D. Harper-Shipman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1000691527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa demonstrates how instead of empowering the communities they work with, the jargon of development ownership often actually serves to perpetuate the centrality of multilateral organizations and international donors in African development, awarding a fairly minimal role to local partners. In the context of today’s development scheme for Africa, ownership is often considered to be the panacea for all of the aid-dependent continent’s development woes. Reinforced through the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action, ownership is now the preeminent procedure for achieving aid effectiveness and a range of development outcomes. Throughout this book, the author illustrates how the ownership paradigm dictates who can produce development knowledge and who is responsible for carrying it out, with a specific focus on the health sectors in Burkina Faso and Kenya. Under this paradigm, despite the ownership narrative, national stakeholders in both countries are not producers of development knowledge; they are merely responsible for its implementation. This book challenges the preponderance of conventional international development policies that call for more ownership from African stakeholders without questioning the implications of donor demands and historical legacies of colonialism in Africa. Ultimately, the findings from this book make an important contribution to critical development debates that question international development as an enterprise capable of empowering developing nations. This lively and engaging book challenges readers to think differently about the ownership, and as such will be of interest to researchers of development studies and African studies, as well as for development practitioners within Africa.
From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals
Author: Kobena T. Hanson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1351855018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century. In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa’s development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs’ universal aspirations into local realities. This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.
Good Growth and Governance in Africa
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Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780191738142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the history of developmental policy in sub-Saharan Africa and considers how different policy options might generate sustained economic growth and reduce poverty. It documents and interprets policy lessons and considers how to translate them to particular country contexts.
Epistemic Freedom in Africa
Author: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0429960190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Anchored in Place
Author: Bank, Leslie
Publisher: African Minds
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1928331750
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to engage seriously with the place-based developmental role of universities. In the international literature and policy there has been an increasing integration of the university with place-based development, especially in cities. This volume weighs in on the debate by drawing attention to the place-based roles and agency of South African universities in their local towns and cities. It acknowledges that universities were given specific development roles in regions, homelands and towns under apartheid, and comments on why sub-national, place-based development has not been a key theme in post-apartheid, higher education planning. Given the developmental crisis in the country, universities could be expected to play a more constructive and meaningful role in the development of their own precincts, cities and regions. But what should that role be? Is there evidence that this is already occurring in South Africa, despite the lack of a national policy framework? What plans and programmes are in place, and what is needed to expand the development agency of universities at the local level? Who and what might be involved? Where should the focus lie, and who might benefit most, and why? Is there a need perhaps to approach the challenges of college towns, secondary cities and metropolitan centers differently? This book poses some of these questions as it considers the experiences of a number of South African universities, including Wits, Pretoria, Nelson Mandela University and especially Fort Hare as one of its post-centenary challenges.
