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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.
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.
Girlhood, interdisciplinary and global in source, scope, and
methodology, examines the centrality of girlhood in shaping women's
lives. Scholars study how age and gender, along with a multitude of
other identities, work together to influence the historical
experience. Spanning a broad time frame from 1750 to the present,
essays illuminate the various continuities and differences in
girls' lives across culture and region girls on all continents
except Antarctica are represented. Case studies and essays are
arranged thematically to encourage comparisons between girls'
experiences in diverse locales, and to assess how girls were
affected by historical developments such as colonialism, political
repression, war, modernisation, shifts in labour markets,
migrations, and the rise of consumer culture.
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