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The Idea of Development in Africa - A History (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Idea of Development in Africa - A History (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: New Approaches to African History
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The Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing
international development discourses about the continent, by
tracing the history of ideas, practices, and 'problems' of
development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative
approach to examining the history and culture of development
through the lens of the development episteme, which has been
foundational to the 'idea of Africa' in western discourses since
the early 1800s. The study weaves together an historical narrative
of how the idea of development emerged with an account of the
policies and practices of development in colonial and postcolonial
Africa. The book highlights four enduring themes in African
development, including their present-day ramifications:
domesticity, education, health, and industrialization. Offering a
balance between historical overview and analysis of past and
present case studies, Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker
demonstrate that Africans have always co-opted, challenged, and
reformed the idea of development, even as the western-centric
development episteme presumes a one-way flow of ideas and funding
from the West to Africa.
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