Jostling between "mere talk" & blame game?
Subtitle: beyond Africa's poverty and underdevelopment game talk
By: edited by Munyaradzi Mawere
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Bamenda, Cameroon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9789956764822
Subjects: Economic development; Economic conditions
Description: One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much "mere talk" and "blame game" have played out at the expense of "real action". The blame game and mere talk on Africa's poverty and underdevelopment jam have remained printed in bold on the face of the continent, yet Africa's dire situation warrants nothing less than real emphatic action. This book focuses on the empirics of the production and reproduction of poverty and underdevelopment across Africa in a fashion that warrants urgent pragmatic policy attention and quest for workable homegrown solutions to persistent predicaments. The volume advances the need to recognise the realities of global inequalities and move swiftly in a most informed and transparent manner to address the poverty and underdevelopment conundrum. The book sets the tempo and pace on the need for praxis and pragmatism on the African situation. It is handy to students and practitioners in African studies, poverty and development studies, global studies, policy studies, economics and political science.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. The marginalisation and impoverishment of Africa : reversing the causes and consequences of poverty in Africa / Munyaradzi Mawere; title: 2. Gods of development or perpetuators of poverty and underdevelopment in the 'developing' world? rethinking the role of the World Bank and IMF on Africa's socio-economic development / Munyaradzi Mawere; title: 3. The impoverishment of Africa by the west's multinational corporations : a case of multinational corporations in Nigeria's Delta Region / Odeigah Theresa Nfam & Munyaradzi Mawere; title: 4. Foraging to survive : poverty and shifting consumer dynamics in rural Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008 / Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri; title: 5. Poverty, conflict and vulnerability in Africa / Takavafira Masarira Zhou; title: 6. The impact of poverty on infant and maternal mortality rates in Nigeria : some lessons and insights for Africa / Mohammed Y. Abubakar; Joseph A. Oluyemi; Joseph Adejoke; Raji Abdullateef; Kadiri Kehinde; & Atolagbe Emmanuel; title: 7. The geography of poverty and disaster risks in Africa : challenges and prospects for development / Costain Tandi & Munyaradzi Mawere; title: 8. The emergence of the cycle of poverty and traditional systems for poverty eradication in Yorubaland : insights from the biblical Ruth and Naomi / Caleb O. Ogunkunle; title: 9. Mwariology as basis for heritage studies and springboard for Africa's development / Phillip T. D. Mazambara & Munyaradzi Mawere; title: 10. Disempowerment and impoverishment of African communities : re-visiting the effects of land grabbing by foreigners in Africa / Tasara Muguti & Angeline Sithole; title: 11. Manifestations of the symptoms of poverty in the electoral behaviour of Nigerian political actors / Johnson O. Olaniyi; title: 12. Witchcraft, development and politicking : the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) power struggles and their poverty implications in Zimbabwe / Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri; title: 13. Corruption and failures of various poverty alleviation programmes to eradicate poverty : historical appraisal of Nigeria from 1985-2015 / Orji Boniface Ifeanyi; title: 14. 'A prophet for the poor?' a contextual reading of the Book of Micah vis-a-vis poverty alleviation efforts in Zimbabwe / Nyasha Madzokere.