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    Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
    Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
    Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
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    Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa

    By Langaa RPCIG

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    Not so long ago, the Economist Newspaper described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist s daring but controversial pronouncements, it intensified from thereon. Many concerned people from within the continent and elsewhere have reproved the proclamation but mainly in newspapers and the broadcast media. Not enough has been done by development scholars to critically reflect on the description and status of Africa s development condition in a nuanced and systematic fashion. Yet, it is through incisive reflections and systematic engagements with Africa s situations and circumstances that directions and solutions to the African development predicament could be forged. The present volume is an attempt to open up a constructive dialogue between the Global North and the Global South on the African [under-]development conundrum. The book is an eye opener to African governments, social scientists, policy makers and development scholars concerned with the urgent need to rethink, reimagine and retheorise Africa s development gridlock.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateDec 14, 2016
    ISBN9789956764037
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