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Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on 'Development'

By Nathan Andrews (Editor), Nene Ernest Khalema (Editor), Isaac Odoom (Editor), Temitope Oriola (Editor)
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From a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary standpoint, this book challenges the teleological and unidirectional notions of development embodied in the idea of modernisation or 'progress' and offers a critique of the tendency to consider Africa as a basket case, which often gives the Western 'self' an undeserving privilege and superiority over the African 'other'. Mostly authored by emerging African scholars, this 16-chapter volume addresses the historical application of development proj...

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