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Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World : The Politics and Sociology of Development in Contemporary Africa

Author :  Munyaradzi Mawere (ed)

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Country
Cameroun
Publisher
Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
ISBN 9789956550982
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2018
Bib. Info xiv, 370p. ; 229 x 152mm.
Product Weight 600 gms.
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It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations towards truly inclusive and sustainable development. A consequence has been Africa’s development naivety vis-a-vis the monopolisation of development by the predatory elite actors of the global North and their local facilitators. To salvage the continent from such predation and the insecurities engendered requires novel and innovative imagination and praxis. This book draws from both the haunted landscapes and bitter memories of past exploitations and from the feeding of the insatiable North with African resources and humanity. It brings together essays by a concerned generation of scholars driven by the urgent need for radical decolonisation of African development and its legacies of insecurities. It is handy to students and practitioners in economics, policy studies, political science, development studies, global and African studies.

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