Emerging Perspectives on African Development

Speaking Differently

George J. Sefa Dei, Paul Banahene Adjei

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781433120954
• eBook ISBN: 9781453913062
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting 'development, ' highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in 'post-colonial' Africa. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons. This book is also for undergraduate and graduate courses on development, global education, rural development, and Africa studies. For readers looking for something new about Africa beyond the old stories of catastrophes and human misery, this book will be indispensable. It demonstrates that even in the face of many failures, tragedies, and suffering, Africa's stories can be told with hope and a sense of possibility.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Introduction. Emerging Perspectives on ‘African Development’: An Introduction
• Chapter 1. Democracy, Good Governance, and Education: Rethinking African Possibilities
• Chapter 2. Toward an Ontological and Epistemological Understanding of Indigenous African Process of Conflicts and Disputes Mediations and Settlements (CADMAS)
• Chapter 3. Dreaming Beyond the State: Centering Indigenous Governance as a Framework for African Development
• Chapter 4. Transforming Canada’s Hegemonic Global Education Paradigm through an Anticolonial Framework
• Chapter 5. Challenging the Euro-Western Epistemological Dominance of Development through African Cosmovision
• Chapter 6. Centering African Indigenous Women within the Context of Social-Economic and Political Development
• Chapter 7. Regional Integration, a Prospect for Development: Lessons from Rwanda’s Experience in the East African Community
• Chapter 8. Rethinking Development: An Indigenous African Communal Approach
• Chapter 9. Basic Education and Sustainable Development in the Era of Globalization: Does Nigeria Mortgage Her Future in Accepting International Assistance for Her Primary Education Projects?
• Chapter 10. Environmental Stewardship and Indigenous Education in Africa: Looking Beyond Eurocentric Dominated Curricula
• Notes on Contributors