Modernization And The Crisis Of Development In Africa

Author : Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351152907

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Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa by Jeremiah I. Dibua Pdf

In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.

Author : Peter J. Bloom,Stephan F. Miescher,Takyiwaa Manuh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253012333

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Modernization as Spectacle in Africa by Peter J. Bloom,Stephan F. Miescher,Takyiwaa Manuh Pdf

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans’ perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.

Author : Siyabonga Lushaba
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869783935

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Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development by Siyabonga Lushaba Pdf

This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides an outline of the theory of modernity in the Enlightenment project. In the second section, an attempt is made to trace the genealogy of the idea of development as modernity and how the African development process gets entangled with it. Here, its evolution is mapped through three periods: early modernity, capitalist modernity and late modernity. Zeroing in on the current era of late or hypermodernity, the book contests the idea that there is something new in globalisation and its neo-liberal development paradigm. The third section turns to the complex but pertinent question of how, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Africa can transcend the impasse of modernity. The fourth and final section sums up the argument and points the way forward.

Author : Pradip K. Ghosh
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1984-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039868935

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Developing Africa by Pradip K. Ghosh Pdf

The countries of the African continent suffer from numerous and severe economic maladies that inhibit their chances for effective economic growth. The problem confronting Africa's policy makers is how to combine overall economic growth with a more equitable distribution of income and economic assistance. This resource book examines the experiences of the African countries in implementing development programs and policies during the 1970s, and offers some conclusions and suggestions for further study. To assist those directly involved or interested in the formulation and implementation of economic development policies, the editor has provided statistical information and a descriptive bibliography for further research.

Author : Sebastian Edwards,Simon Johnson,David N. Weil
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226315867

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African Successes, Volume III by Sebastian Edwards,Simon Johnson,David N. Weil Pdf

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The third volume in the series, African Successes: Modernization and Development looks at the rise in private production in spite of difficult institutional and physical environments. The volume emphasizes the ways that technologies, including mobile phones, have made growth in some areas especially dynamic.

Author : Giordano Sivini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351493239

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Resistance to Modernization in Africa by Giordano Sivini Pdf

Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with the numerous African aid projects he has been involved with over the years.While the fathers of independence of British and French decolonization wanted to change the colonial conditions of exploitation, Sivini finds that their good intentions have been shipwrecked. Ironically, the longer Sivini served as an aid consultant, the more he found himself dismayed at the various projects that were under way or slated to begin. He perceived some of the projects as grotesque, and, almost all ineffective. The money was wasted on such ventures not because of a particular government's interest in the social effects they would have on the local populace, but because of the direct and indirect benefits the government would receive.Sivini sees international development aid as its own market: development is a commodity that takes the form of large and small projects, and is traded for loans and gifts to generate political and economic advantages for the institutional participants in the exchange. Ultimately, governmental and aid projects often stimulate resistance from the local populace as agencies upset their usual system of production by regimenting peasants to produce for the market, then appropriate the cattle of nomadic pastoralists, villagizing and resettling peasants in areas of high productivity, and exploiting laborers in large farms. This creates social disintegration, mass migration in urban informal economy, and poverty.This is a dynamic and moving analysis of foreign aid that will be of interest to students of African studies, governmental programs, rural development, and political economy.

Author : Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754642283

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Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa by Jeremiah I. Dibua Pdf

In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment.

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491687

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From Crisis to Renewal by Kempe Ronald Hope Pdf

This volume deals with crisis and renewal in African development policy and management. It digs deep into, takes stock of, and thoroughly analyzes the nature, impact, and future of development policy and management on the continent. It demonstrates the failure of post-independence policy and management in most of Africa, traces the emergence and results of reform measures, and advocates the lessons of success for the rest of Africa derived from Botswana’s approach to sustainable development and its achievement of economic prosperity and the maintenance of political stability and good governance. It concludes, rather optimistically, that the prospects for sustainable development are much better now than they have ever been before with the 21st century likely to be hailed as ‘The African Century’ – bringing with it a durable peace and sustainable growth.

Author : Sebastian Edwards,Simon Johnson,David N. Weil
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022631572X

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African Successes, Volume III by Sebastian Edwards,Simon Johnson,David N. Weil Pdf

Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The third volume in the series, African Successes: Modernization and Development looks at the rise in private production in spite of difficult institutional and physical environments. The volume emphasizes the ways that technologies, including mobile phones, have made growth in some areas especially dynamic.

Author : Julius Edo Nyang'oro
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038562190

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The State and Capitalist Development in Africa by Julius Edo Nyang'oro Pdf

This work goes beyond recent analyses of African development to present a post-dependency framework for the study of Africa's political economy. The author argues that, although the contributions of the modernization and dependency frameworks cannot be ignored, recent economic and political adjustments and realignments require a more penetrating analysis--one that takes into account such factors as the overall growth of the economy, the role of the state, parallel markets, and capitalist development in general. An ideal supplemental text for courses in comparative politics, international political economy, and African development, the volume is comparative in approach and covers the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The author begins by discussing the various dimensions--agricultural, environmental, industrial, population--of Africa's continuing crisis condition. He then closely examines the African development experience since independence and explores the evolution of development theory and its application to Africa. Arguing for a new mode of production approach to the study of Africa's political economy, the author attempts to determine whether Africa is indeed predominantly capitalist and raises questions regarding prevailing theories of capitalist development. Finally, Nyang'oro looks at the state in Africa, pointing to some fundamental weaknesses that contribute to the ongoing crisis and offering a perceptive assessment of development options open to Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Africa
ISBN : LOC:00183820333

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The Crisis of Development and Interdependence by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa Pdf

In need of time to decide what to do with her life after a year of college, Marcie finds help in her guitar and bluegrass music in breaking away from her overprotective divorced mother and in making decisions.

Author : Claude Ake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080920668

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The Political Economy of Crisis and Underdevelopment in Africa by Claude Ake Pdf

Author : Fuabeh Paul Fonge
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040047295

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Modernization Without Development in Africa by Fuabeh Paul Fonge Pdf

Compares civil service administration under various colonial regimes.

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044

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Our Continent, Our Future by P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo Pdf

Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.

Author : Tunde Zack-Williams,Diane Frost,Alex Thomson
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025774527

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Africa In Crisis by Tunde Zack-Williams,Diane Frost,Alex Thomson Pdf

'Succeeds in highlighting the point that Africa's crisis is not natural or inevitable, but a product of human history.' --International Affairs