1st Edition

Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa

Edited By Edward Shizha, Ali A. Abdi Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in... Read more

Introduction: Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa  Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi  Section I: Indigenous Knowledge and Development  1. Reflections on ‘African Development’: Situating Indigeneity and Indigenous Knowledges  George J. Sefa Dei [Nana Sefa Atweneboah I]  2. Intersections Between Indigenous Knowledge and Economic Development in Africa  Gloria T. Emeagwali  3. Indigenization and Sustainable Development for Zimbabwe: A Post-Colonial Philosophical Perspective  Ngoni Makuvaza  Section II: Indigenous Knowledge, Culture and Education  4. Re-Culturing De-Cultured Education for Inclusive Social Development in Africa  Ali A. Abdi  5. Counter-Visioning Contemporary African Education: Indigenous Science as a Tool for African Development  Edward Shizha  6. Reclaiming the Education for All Agenda in Africa: Prospects for Inclusive Policy Spaces  Musembi Nungu  7. Education Inequality and Economic Development in Eastern and Southern Africa  Oliver Masakure  8. Learning by Doing: Julius Nyerere’s Education Policy for Self-Reliance in Tanzania  Grace John Rwiza  9. A Diploma for a Debt: Students’ Perception of Their Student Loan Program in Burkina Faso  Tuouruouzou Herve Some  Section III: Politics and Development  10. International Corporate Politics and the Hubris of Development Discourses  Desmond Ikenna Odugu  11. The Dual Sources of Political Development in Ethiopia and the Emergence of Ethnic Federalism  Berhanu Demeke  12. Leadership and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives  Lamine Diallo and Ginette Lafrenière  13. Revisiting the African Revolutionary Praxis in the Global Era  Konate Siendou  14. The Shifting Boundaries of the African State in Agricultural Institutions and Policies in an Era of Globalization  Korbla P. Puplampu

Biography

Edward Shizha is Associate Professor in Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford) in Canada.

Ali A. Abdi is Professor and Co-director, Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research (CGCER) in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta.