Endogenous Development: Naïve Romanticism or Practical Route to Sustainable African Development

ISBN-13: 9781138294950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str.

Chiku Malunga; Susan H. Holcombe

Opis

Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. This book gives a platform for thirteen African voices, academics and practitioners, to turn this Western-led theory around, and talk about an endogenous development process rooted in African philosophy, traditions and experience, and shaped by African decision-makers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction – Endogenous development: naïve romanticism or practical route to sustainable African development?  Part I: Defining endogenous development  2. Identifying and understanding African norms and values that support endogenous development in Africa  3. Endogenous development: some issues of concern  4. African family values in a globalised world: the speed and intensity of change in post-colonial Africa  Part II: Endogenous development in practice  5. African philanthropy, pan-Africanism, and Africa’s development  6. Wiki approaches to wicked problems: considering African traditions in innovative collaborative approaches  7. Using Rwandan traditions to strengthen programme and policy implementation  8. Lessons of endogenous leadership in Nigeria: innovating to reduce waste and raise incomes in the cassava processing and goat-keeping systems  9. Centring African culture in water, sanitation, and hygiene development praxis in Ghana: a case for endogenous development  10. Endogenous development in Somalia: bridging the gap between traditional and Western implementation methodologies  11. Water tariff conflict resolution through indigenous participation in tri-water sector partnerships: Dalun cluster communities in northern Ghana  12. Endogenous African governance systems: what roles do women play in rural Malawi?  13. Putting endogenous development into practice  Part III: Endogenous development in a globalised world  14. Donors and exogenous versus endogenous development  15. Indigenous languages and Africa’s development dilemma  Part IV: Moving forward with endogenous development  16. Endogenous development going forward: learning and action

O autorze

Chiku Malunga is an Organizational Paremiologist. He works with Civil Society Organizations as an Organization Development Practitioner, using African Indigenous Wisdom in African Proverbs and Folktales to transform development management.

Susan Holcombe has worked with Oxfam America and several United Nations organizations, and has taught sustainable development at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Her career ranges from on the ground experience in Africa and Asia, to teaching and research.