Download or read book Perspectives and Dilemmas in the Study of African Development written by Cleophas Lado and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Perspectives on Development written by Ulf Himmelstrand and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical perspectives on the crisis of development theories.
Download or read book African Perspectives on Global Development written by Mahmoud Masaeli and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is not merely an invention with a modern, imperial or colonial background. Nor is it simply a continent in need of foreign aid from the richer, more affluent societies. Africa might be economically needy, politically unstable, and, in part, socially chaotic and suffering from civil wars and social unrest. However, the continent and its peoples are certainly different from the negative image portrayed in the mass media. Africa had been the cradle of civilization in the pre-colonial era, and is today undergoing a diverse cultural, philosophical, and spiritual development with great potential, contributing to contemporary debates around the ethics of globality. The novelty of this book derives from its multidisciplinary approach. Although the authors generally come from the fields of development and economics, global studies, political science, philosophy and ethics, and sociology, they present Africa’s alternative view of human wellbeing in order to provide theories and policy recommendations which inspire the specific developmental patterns for the growth of the continent. The volume discusses the meaning of development for the continent by drawing on culture, identity, ethnicity, and philosophy of nature. The contributors examine a variety of issues and themes directly related to the opportunities provided by globality to promote the development of the continent. They also discuss solutions for underdevelopment and poverty, and how those perspectives might be effectively integrated into the global agenda for the development of Africa.
Download or read book African Development Dilemma written by Samuel M. Muriithi and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores development issues in Africa from the human, social, economic, geographical and political perspectives. It presents arguments as to why Africa remains less developed compared to other continents and provides recommendations to achieve effective development. The author discusses such specific questions as: Are Africans capable of developing Africa? How has nature contributed to problems in Africa? and Did slavery contribute to underdevelopment?
Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on African Development written by George Jerry Sefa Dei and published by Counterpoints. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development' Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons.
Download or read book Contemporary Development Ethics from an African Perspective written by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers fresh academic insights, reflections, questions, issues, and approaches to development ethics, taking into account, African values and ethics. Development ethics is an area of applied ethics that examines the moral issues involved in global, social, and economic transformation. While it is a relatively new discipline, there have been numerous scholarly publications on it from Western perspectives. However, only a few studies that focused on development ethics from the African perspective. To address this gap, the book seeks to answer critical questions such as "What does development mean to Africans?", "How can we measure development?", "Who gets to decide?", and "What constitutes just development in Africa?" With contributions from African scholars from diverse backgrounds, the book covers various development themes such as Theories and approaches to development ethics in Africa, Environmental Ethics and African Development, Ethics, Politics and African Development, Migration and African development, Gender, Ethics and Socio-economic Development in Africa, Education, Ethics and African development. It is an essential resource for researchers, lecturers, and students interested in political philosophy and African culture studies.
Download or read book Development In Modern Africa written by Martin S. Shanguhyia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa’s experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within the context of critiques on development in Africa that have yielded two general categories of analysis: skepticism and pessimism. While not overlooking the shortcomings of development, the themes in the book express an optimistic view of Africa’s development experiences, highlighting elements that can be tapped into to enhance the condition of African populations and their states. By using case studies from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa, contributors to the volume demonstrate that human instincts to improve material, social and spiritual words are universal. They are not limited to the Western world, which the term and process of development are typically associated with. Before and after contact with the West, Africans have actively created institutions and values that they have actively employed to improve individual and community lives. This innovative spirit has motivated Africans to integrate or experiment with new values and structures, challenges, and solutions to human welfare that resulted from contact with colonialism and the postcolonial global community. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of history, African studies, and regional studies.
Download or read book Indigenist African Development and Related Issues written by Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no term so heavily contested in social science literature/nomenclature than ‘Development’. This book brings Indigenous perspectives to African develop¬ment. It is argued that contrary to development as we know it not working, a greater part of the problem is that conventional development approaches that work have in fact not truly been followed to the letter and hence the quagmire. All this is ironic since everything we do about our world is development. So, how come there is “difficult knowledge” when it comes to learning from what we know, i.e., what local peoples do and have done for centuries as a starting point to recon¬structing and reframing ‘development’? In getting our heads around this paradox, we are tempted to ask more questions. How do we as African scholars and research¬ers begin to develop “home-grown solutions” to our problems? How do we pioneer new analytical systems for understanding our communities and offer a pathway to genuine African development, i.e., Indigenist African development? (see also Yankah, 2004). How do we speak of Indigenist development mindful of global developments and entanglements around us? Can we afford to pursue development still mired in a “catch up” scenario? Are we in a race with the development world and where do we see this race ending or where do we define as the ‘finishing line’? A Publication of the Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies [SACOST], University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Download or read book Africa written by Peter Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the historical construction of African states, the modes of political control in the region, and the character of political elites. It examines the nature of political legitimacy and the avenues of participation or withdrawal pursued by various popular sectors.
Download or read book Africa s Development in Historical Perspective written by Emmanuel Akyeampong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
Download or read book African perspectives on development written by Ulf Himmelstrand and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Shortcuts to Progress written by Goran Hyden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook proceeding to a comparison of political development and development administration in Africa - examines the failure of capital flow, technology transfer and development aid to bring about economic and social development; emphasizes the need for decentralization, revival of local government, political participation, promotion of nongovernmental organizations and local level institution building and an indigenous management development style; considers the role of public enterprise. References.
Download or read book Africa written by Peter Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the historical construction of African states, the modes of political control in the region, and the character of political elites. It examines the nature of political legitimacy and the avenues of participation or withdrawal pursued by various popular sectors.
Download or read book Emerging Perspectives on African Development written by George J. Sefa Dei and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Development Reconsidered written by Haskell G. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Issues in Economic Development written by S. M. Wangwe and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa written by Peter Lewis and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by today's most influential African scholars, this collection of pathbreaking articles covers a variety of topics including political leadership, forms of state power, the role of civil society, the importance of class, ethnicity, and gender, and the prospects for democratic change in the region. The book provides a broad historical perspective on Africa's political economic development and an overview of current problems and prospects.
