Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa

Luke Amadi; Fidelis Allen

doi:10.5771/9781666901252

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0124-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0125-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 312
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Imagined Cities: Theorizing Exogenous African Urban Development Fantasies No access
3. Historical Context (Late Colonial Policy) of Urban Regeneration in Lagos No access
4. Postcolonial Urban Renewal: Eko O Ni Baje Ethos and Makoko Waterfront Settlement No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: From Kant and Marx to the Postcolonial Present No access
3. Hybridity and the Unlearning of Nationalism No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Colonial Government as Economic Exploiter No access
3. Law, Order, and Exploitation No access
4. The Agrarian and National Program of the Africana Mass Party No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Dance and Development Contrapuntally Approached No access
3. A Multilayered Bias against the Dance No access
4. Reading Bodily Movements No access
5. The Open Temporality of the Dance and Decolonial Development No access
6. Allegations of Prostitution Contextualized No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Methodology No access
3. Colonialism and the Destruction of IKS: The Power/Knowledge Nexus No access
4. African Traditional Dances and Histories as Targets of Colonial Epistemicide: The Case of Zimbabwe No access
5. Toward an African Critical Race Theory (AfriCrit) for Africa’s Self-Development No access
6. With Self-Interested Models Everywhere, Wherefore Africa? No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Literature Review on Colonial Rule in Africa No access
3. Conceptual Framework No access
4. African Moral Economy No access
5. Conceptual Framework on Social Entrepreneurship No access
6. Deconstructing the Colonial Model of Development in Africa No access
7. Rethinking African Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Endogenous Alternative Model of Development in Postcolonial Africa No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. A Brief Conceptualization of Development in the Context of Postcolonial Africa No access
3. A Review of Postcolonial Africa’s ADIs No access
4. The ADIs and Postcolonial Africa’s Contentions No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The “Colonial Development Model” Discourse and the Glory of the African Past No access
3. Mapping African Indigenous Development Model No access
4. The African Development Model versus The Colonial Development Model in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood (1977) No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Methodology No access
3. The Political Theory of Nationalism No access
4. Papal Imperialism and National Consciousness in the Medieval Era No access
5. Colonialism and Economic Disarticulation in Africa No access
6. Ideology of Decolonization No access
7. Nationalism and the Ideology of Development No access
8. Toward an African Paradigm of Development No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theoretical Framework No access
3. Understanding Women’s Plight under Colonial Rule No access
4. African Women under Colonial Rule No access
5. Women and Resistance Movement in Egypt No access
6. The Women’s Revolt in South East Nigeria No access
7. Women Fighters in the Mau Mau Movement No access
8. Analysis of the Rebellious Movements and Implications for Decolonization of Gender No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Conceptual Clarifications and Theoretical Framework No access
3. Factors Responsible for Migration of Africans to Europe No access
4. Transcultural Exchanges between African Migrants and Their Hosts in Europe No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Decolonial Theoretical Framework No access
3. Colonial Development Models: Theoretical Perspectives No access
4. Modernization Theory No access
5. Globalization Theory No access
6. Deconstructing the Colonial Development Models: Alternative Approaches No access
7. Indigenous Knowledge Systems No access
8. Africanizing Development Models No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theorizing Colonial Development Construct No access
3. “Colonial Development” from the Lens of Colonial Policies No access
4. Colonial Oil Palm Appropriation Policies in Benin Province No access
5. Conclusion: Toward Deconstructing Colonial Development No access
6. References No access
7. Archival Sources No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theoretical Framework No access
3. State Fragility and Forced Migration in Colonial Nigeria No access
4. State Fragility and Forced Migration in Postcolonial Nigeria No access
5. Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Postcolonial Nigeria No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. References No access
Author Index No access Pages 291 - 296
Subject Index No access Pages 297 - 304
About the Contributors No access Pages 305 - 312