Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow : Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’
ISBN: 9781443846394
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Business/ Management; Geography/ Travel; Economics;

From a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary standpoint, this book challenges the teleological and unidirectional notions of development embodied in the idea of modernisation or OCyprogressOCO and offers a critique of the tendency to consider Africa as a basket case, which often gives the Western OCyselfOCO an undeserving privilege and superiority over the African OCyotherOCO. Mostly authored by emerging African scholars, this 16-chapter volume addresses the historical application of development projec..."


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