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The Idea of Development in Africa: A History

By Corrie Decker, Elisabeth McMahon
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By Corrie Decker, Elisabeth McMahon
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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 ...

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Social SciencesHistoryAfrican StudiesAfrican HistoryGeneral African HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous African History