Development Perspectives from the South

Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa

Munyaradzi Mawere

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9789956764976
• eBook ISBN: 9789956764037
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Not so long ago, the Economist Newspaper 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 Economists 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 Africas development condition in a nuanced and systematic fashion. Yet, it is through incisive reflections and systematic engagements with Africas 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 Africas development gridlock.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Chapter One - Beyond Africa’s Underdevelopment Gridlock: In Search of a Productive Future
• Chapter Two - Troubling the Myth of Africa’s [Under-] development
• Chapter Three - Pillage, Plunder and Migration in Africa: On the Expatriation of Riches and Remittances
• Chapter Four - (Post-)development and the Social Production of Ignorance: Farming Ignorance in 21st Century Africa
• Chapter Five - Problematising the Developmental Potential of Community Share Ownership Trusts (CSOTS) in Zimbabwe: The Case of the Tongogara CSOT, 2011-2014
• Chapter Six - Economic Dependency and Third World Underdevelopment: A Case of Nigeria
• Chapter Seven - “Messianic Resuscitation or Foreign Implantation of the Seed of Underdevelopment?” Interrogating the Role of Foreign Aid in Africa’s Development Agenda
• Chapter Eight - Unveiling Orientalism in Foreign Narratives for Engineering for Development that Targets Africa
• Chapter Nine - Decolonising Africa’s Development: In Search of Development Alternative Paths
• Chapter Ten - Education Policy, Exclusion and Development: Filling the Gaps in Zimbabwe’s Public Education for Socio-Economic Development
• Chapter Eleven - Globalisation and Land-grabbing in Africa: The Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investments for Rural Populations in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Tanzania
• Chapter Twelve - Troubling the Triadic Relationship of Gender, Development and Underdevelopment in Africa
• Chapter Thirteen - Human Development-Based Hotel Managers’P erceptions on Incentive Travel in Zimbabwe: Insights from Masvingo Province
• Chapter Fourteen - “A New Form of Imperialism?” Interrogating China-Africa Relations and Development Prospects in Africa
• Chapter Fifteen - Environmental Activism from Below: The Case of the subaltern against Commercial Diamond-mining Companies in the Chiadzwa Area of Zimbabwe, 2009-2013
• Back cover