Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique

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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...

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Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocates for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the contributors identify and analyze the effects of global inequality, racism, white supremacy, crisis, climate change, increasing environmental insecurity, underdevelopment, chronic diseases, and the vulnerability of the postcolonial societies of the global South. Together, the collection calls for and theorizes a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionFidelis 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 LagosAdebisi AladeChapter 2. Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for HybridityNick T. C. LuChapter 3: Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of Africa? A Post-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions Biko AgozinoChapter 4. Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach Fouad MamiChapter 5: Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-Development ParadigmsNathan Moyo and Jairos GonyeChapter 6: Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa's Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Colonial Africa Mike OdeyChapter 7: Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Post-Colonial Africa Alternative Development Initiatives and the ContentionsVictor I. OgharandukuChapter 8: Challenging the "Colonial Development Model": The Quest for an Indigenous African Modelin Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of BloodSolomon AwuzieChapter 9. Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa Matthew D. OgaliChapter 10: Women, Resistance Movements and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria Moses J. Yakubu and Olusegun AdeyeriChapter 11. African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization John Ebute Agaba and Emmanuel S. OklaChapter 12: Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa Olayinka Akanle and Chukwuka Blessing ChidiogoChapter 13: Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry Fred Ekpe AyokhaiChapter 14. Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Post-Colonial NigeriaOlanrewaju Faith Osasumwen

Review

This collection of case studies calls for decolonizing the social sciences and for a new configuration of development unbound from its colonial legacies. It brings together studies from multiple disciplines, including education, sociology, literature, history, and political science. The majority of the contributors teach at African universities. While some chapters are manifestos for new approaches to development or literature reviews, other contributions feature new research. This study certainly offers a clear perspective on African critiques of development. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty. * Choice Reviews *This is a careful balance of older and newer voices on Africa's search for development, moving effortlessly from city planning to national projects, and then to continental ideologies and crises. Knowledge is powerful! The book's mission of rethinking extant ideas to move the continent forward is laudable, thus bringing academic issues that are translatable to practical projects to the table of policy makers. -- Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USAThis book is a timely contribution to the critical turn in the study of Africa and its developmental travails and aspirations in that it revisits the very idea of development, probing its problematic underpinnings and rescuing it from coloniality of power that continues to haunt it. A combination of conceptual critique and case analysis makes this an excellent read for scholars, students, and general readers alike. I highly recommend this collection for those looking for fresh and diverse insights on how to realize Africa's age-old development, the Africa we want. -- Siphamandla Zondi, University of JohannesburgAllen and Amadi have assembled an amazing coterie of African scholarly voices and intellectuals to offer a much-needed tour de force for anyone contemplating myriad pathways for decolonizing, deconstructing, and demolishing entrenched legacies of African colonial development. -- M.K. Dorsey, Club of RomeDecolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique is a thoroughly researched book which provides critical insights into the dynamics and contributions of colonialism in defining development in Africa. Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi have done a tour de force by interrogating the thoughts of a cross section of African scholars on the destructive impacts of colonialism on indigenous knowledge, social structures, politics, and development in Africa. It also examines Africanist scholars' views on postcolonial identity, postcolonial nationalism, and postcolonial development, and highlights the implications for development in the continent. The book provides recommendations on how to address the challenges to development thrown up by colonialism. These suggestions pertain mainly on how to reverse or redefine the ideology of colonial development, postcolonial development patterns, and development models in Africa. This book situates in a single volume issues addressing the contemporary challenges of politics, development, and security in Africa. It is a must-read and is subsequently recommended to scholars, researchers, students, government functionaries, development partners, and practitioners. -- Ibaba Samuel Ibaba, Niger Delta University

Details ISBN1666901261 Author Luke A. Amadi Pages 344 Publisher Lexington Books Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781666901269 Format Paperback Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Subtitle A New Postcolonial Critique Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781666901245 Edited by Luke A. Amadi DEWEY 325.3096 Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified; Black & White Illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational Language English ISBN-10 1666901261 UK Release Date 2023-09-15 AU Release Date 2023-09-14 Publication Date 2023-09-15 US Release Date 2023-09-15 We've got this

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