Author: Chukwumerije Okereke Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317505522 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the late 1990s many African countries have started to take initiatives to develop an integrated framework that tackles poverty and promotes socio-economic development in their respective countries. This book provides a critical evaluation of ‘homegrown’ development initiatives in Africa, set up as alternatives to externally sponsored development. Focusing specifically on Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, the book takes a qualitative and comparative approach to offer the first ever in-depth analysis of indigenous development programmes. It examines: How far African states have moved towards more homegrown development strategies. The effects of the shift towards African homegrown socio-economic development strategies and the conditions needed to enhance their success and sustainability. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of development studies, international politics, political economy, public policy and African politics, sociology and economics.
Author: Patricia Agupusi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This is an attempt to articulate a development strategy that is compatible to developing countries with special focus on Africa. I argue that evidence from underdeveloped countries shows that externally driven development framework does not work. And for a country to make headway in socioeconomic progress, an endogenously generated strategy that integrates basic development principles with local characteristics and imperative is needed. This strategy known as homegrown development is an alternative to externally driven development models. This approach corresponds with the endogenous growth theory and the call for indigenous strategy for development. It presupposes the necessity of development planning (Arthur Lewis) and also agrees with the importance of decentralization as propounded by Freiderich Hayek in the Road to Selfdom. This paper takes a conceptual analysis (to articulate homegrown development), normative (to explore the relationship between challenges of development in Africa to its dominant development approaches) and empirical approaches (using global development trajectories to argue that successful countries took homegrown strategy to development). It explores development frameworks of Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa to ascertain the extent African countries are taking homegrown approach to development. This paper also finds that political and collective will is a critical factor to development whether homegrown or not.
Author: Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811366357 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 120
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This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. Since the dawn of political independence in Africa, there has been an ongoing search for the kind of education that will create a class of principled and innovative citizens who are sensitive to and committed to the needs of the continent. When indigenous or environment-generated knowledge forms the basis of learning in classrooms, learners are able to immediately connect their education with their lived reality. The result is much introspection, creativity and innovation across fields, sectors and disciplines, leading to societal transformation. Drawing on several theoretical assertions, examples from a wide range of disciplines, and experiences gathered from different continents at different points in history, the book establishes that for education to trigger the necessary transformation in Africa, it should be constructed on a strong foundation of learners’ indigenous knowledge. The book presents a distinct and uncharted pathway for Africa to advance sustainably through home-grown and grassroots based ideas, leading to advances in science and technology, growth of indigenous African business and the transformation of Africans into conscious and active participants in the continent’s progress. Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa is of interest to educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, researchers and individuals engaged in finding sustainable and strategic solutions to regional and global advancement.
Author: Ezra Chitando Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031129385 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
This book contends that Africa’s sustainable development must be built on African identity and values. Contributors reflect of the role of values in Africa’s effort to overcome poverty, the focus of SDG 1. The volume reflects on how indigenous values such as Ubuntu constitute a critical resource in addressing poverty. It reiterates the importance of positioning the response to poverty in Africa on the continent’s own, home grown values. Contributors also interrogate how values such as integrity, hard work, tolerance, solidarity, respect and others serve to position Africa strategically to overcome poverty. The volume focuses on how values can help Africa to overcome challenges such as corruption, violence, intolerance, competitive ethnicity, xenophobia, misplaced priorities and others. It provides fresh and critical reflections on the role of values and identity in anchoring Africa’s development in the light of SDG 1.
Author: Musaba D. Chailunga Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 9781475942361 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Traditional theories of development continue to come up short in Africa, and it’s time to explore different models to achieve success. Author Musaba D. Chailunga, a Zambian living in Canada, calls upon his expertise as a software developer to seek better solutions to Africa’s problems. He says Africans must do the following: Capitalize and/or formalize transactions to legally document existing infrastructure and normalize processes. Encourage a free trade in which the emphasis is put on the quality of trade rather than the value, and profits are created out of mass exchange rather than exorbitant unit prices. Recognize there are no random events. Every player at every level in a given community has to recognize that actions matter, and everything is connected. Object-Oriented Development in Africa leaves us no time to wish, little time to hope, and all the time to create and build. It is an unconventional model of development for rural communities, but the basis for it is not new, and for Africa it might just work.
Author: George Ngwane Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 9956558370 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 197
Book Description
The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the rationale for Eurocentric democratic paradigms which have partly contributed to the demise of a concrete democratic development entitlement in most African countries. Ngwane weaves both the cultural and political strands into a search for a homegrown development web which he calls 'glocalisation'. Ngwane's essays, most of which have animated debate and discourse in national newspapers, online blogs and International journals are lucid in their arguments, poignant in their ideological focus, rich in their non-fiction craftsmanship and urgent in their message delivery. The essays will make good reading for students of Africa studies, Development studies, Politics and Culture.
Author: Emery Roe Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351289861 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 253
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It is a commonplace that the problems of African rural development are becoming increasingly complex--that is, they have grown more numerous, interrelated, and varied. This complexity has generated a multitude of development scenarios. Such scenarios encourage decision making along rigid and narrow patterns that ignore the diversity of local situations and national cultures. Among these is the doomsday scenario, applied to every nation on the continent, best captured in the phrase Everything worksàexcept in Africa. Emery Roe argues that crisis scenarios generated by an expert (usually non-African) elite are self-serving and counterproductive. Despite this, they go largely unchallenged, even when they fail to explain or predict. Except-Africa takes up the challenge of devising development scenarios that do justice to the continent's variegated reality.The book begins by defining what the author means by a development narrative. The subsequent chapters provide alternate scenarios to such dominant models. Chapter 2 sketches four counter-narratives to the tragedy of the common argument, while chapter 3 constructs the most innovative challenge to conventional ways of thinking about Sub-Saharan pastoralism in decades. Chapter 4 develops an alternative scenario of expatriate advising in Africa, while chapter 5 devises a counter-narrative to the all-too-common views about government budgeting in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. Chapter 6 presents a case study and counter-narrative from Zimbabwe of a complex local government reform. The book concludes by moving beyond case material and specific situations to answer the most imperative question in African studies and rural development: What would a politics of complexity look like in Africa if complexity were seriously engaged?Contemporary African studies are dominated by narratives about power. Yet in African rural development, power interests are by no means always clear. Development issues are frequently contingent and provisional. Surviving the tangled fusion of narrative and reality requires a politics of complexity. Except-Africa will be an essential work in meeting that challenge.
Author: Lual Acuek Lual Deng Publisher: Africa Research and Publications ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is a critical review of the theory and practice of development in Africa during the period 1965-1994. The author identifies six leading issues in African development: economic reform; democratization; environmental degradation; poverty reduction; indebtedness; and civil strife. By way of addressing these leading issues, Dr. Deng calls for the formulation of an African model of sustainable development, which would ensure consistency between development policy and African thought, heritage and institutions. Deng proposes on integrative African model of sustainable development, which consists of four key elements - consensual democratic system of governance; agriculture-led economic growth; social integration; and ecological harmony.
Author: Mr.Montfort Mlachila Publisher: International Monetary Fund ISBN: 1475532407 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 79
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This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa’s financial sector developed in the past few decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress in financial development over the past decade, but there is still considerable scope for further development, especially compared with other regions. Indeed, until a decade or so ago, the level of financial development in a large number of sub-Saharan African countries had actually regressed relative to the early 1980s. With the exception of the region’s middle-income countries, both financial market depth and institutional development are lower than in other developing regions. The region has led the world in innovative financial services based on mobile telephony, but there remains scope to increase financial inclusion further. The development of mobile telephone-based systems has helped to incorporate a large share of the population into the financial system, especially in East Africa. Pan-African banks have been a driver for homegrown financial development, but they also bring a number of challenges.
Author: Chukwumerije Okereke
Author: Patricia Agupusi
Author: Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Author: Ezra Chitando
Author: Musaba D. Chailunga
Author: African Development Foundation (U.S.). Advisory Council
Author: George Ngwane
Author: Emery Roe
Author: Lual Acuek Lual Deng
Author: Mr.Montfort Mlachila