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This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction...
List of contents
Introduction
Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi
Chapter 1: Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos
Adebisi Alade
Chapter 2. Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity
Nick T. C. Lu
Chapter 3: Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of
Africa? A Post-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions
Biko Agozino
Chapter 4. Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach
Fouad Mami
Chapter 5: Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push
the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-Development Paradigms
Nathan Moyo and Jairos Gonye
Chapter 6: Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa's Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Colonial Africa
Mike Odey
Chapter 7: Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Post-Colonial Africa Alternative Development Initiatives and the Contentions
Victor I. Ogharanduku
Chapter 8: Challenging the "Colonial Development Model": The Quest for an Indigenous African Modelin Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood
Solomon Awuzie
Chapter 9. Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa
Matthew D. Ogali
Chapter 10: Women, Resistance Movements and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt,
Kenya and Nigeria
Moses J. Yakubu and Olusegun Adeyeri
Chapter 11. African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization
John Ebute Agaba and Emmanuel S. Okla
Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa
Olayinka Akanle and Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo
Chapter 13: Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry
Fred Ekpe Ayokhai
Chapter 14. Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Post-Colonial Nigeria
Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen
About the author
Fidelis Allen is professor of development studies in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Port Harcourt.
Luke Amadi received his Ph.D. in development studies from the University of Port Harcourt and is currently guest editor at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.
Summary
This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction...
