Title: Development perspectives from the South : troubling the metrics of [under]-development in Africa /
Authors: Mawere, Munyaradzi,
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Economic development Africa.; Economic development; Economic history; Africa Economic conditions; Africa
Abstract: Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist's daring but controversial pronouncements, it intensified from thereon. Many concerned people from within the continent and elsewhere have reproved the proclamation but mainly in newspapers and the broadcast media. Not enough has been done by development scholars to critically reflect on the description and status of Africa's development condition in a nuanced and systematic fashion. Yet, it is through incisive reflections and systematic engagements with Africa's situations and circumstances that directions and solutions to the African development predicament could be forged. The present volume is an attempt to open up a constructive dialogue between the Global North and the Global South on the African [under-]development conundrum. The book is an eye opener to African governments, social scientists, policy makers and development scholars concerned with the urgent need to rethink, reimagine and retheorise Africa's development gridlock.
Contents: Beyond Africa's underdevelopment jam : in search of a productive future / Munyaradzi Mawere -- Troubling the myth of Africa's [under-]development / Nkwazi Mhango -- Pillage, plunder and migration in Africa : on the expatriation of riches and remittances / Munyaradzi Mawere and Gertjan van Stam -- (Post-)development and the social production of ignorance : farming ignorance in 21st century Africa / Artwell Nhemachena -- Problematising the developmental potential of community share ownership trusts (CSOTS) in Zimbabwe : the case of the Tongogara CSOT, 2011-2014 / Ngonidzashe Marongwe and Tasara Muguti -- Economic dependency and third world underdevelopment : a case of Nigeria / Afolabi Opeyemi Glory -- "Messianic resuscitation or foreign implantation of the seed of underdevelopment?" interrogating the role of foreign aid in Africa's development agenda / Munyaradzi Mawere & Costain Tandi --^