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Book Synopsis Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
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Introduction: Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa
Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
PART I: THEORY, CONCEPTS AND DISCOURSE
Chapter 1. Rethinking Development in the Age of Global Coloniality
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chapter 2. Rethinking and Reclaiming Development in Africa
Vusi Gumede
Chapter 3. Elusive Solutions to Poverty and Inequality: From ‘Trickle Down’ to ‘Solidarity Economy’
Tidings P. Ndhlovu
PART II: DEVELOPMENT, URBANISM AND POVERTY
Chapter 4. Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Rudo Barbra Gaidzanwa
Chapter 5. Theory of Poverty or Poverty of Theory?: A Decolonial Intervention on Urban Poverty in South Africa
Raymond Nyapokoto and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
PART III: EMPOWERMENT, REGIONALISM, IDENTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 6. The ‘Native Returns’: Assessing and Re-imagining Indigenisation and Black Economic Empowerment as Development Projects in the ‘Post-colony’
Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa and Tinashe Lukas Chimedza
Chapter 7. Ethno-Politics and Regionalism in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: The Matabeleland Development Question and the Imperative for Development Redress after the Crisis
Vusilizwe Thebe
Chapter 8. The Politics of Land Ownership in South Africa: Self-Perceptions and Identities of Backyard Dwellers within the Coloured Community
Wendy Isaacs-Martin
PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL POLICY AND AFRICAN FAMILIES
Chapter 9. Understanding the Conceptualisation of African Families: A Social Policy Development Poser in South Africa
Busani Mpofu
Chapter 10. Socio-economic and Cultural Barriers to Marital Unions and HIV Incidence Correlates: A Public Policy Poser for South Africa?
Busani Ngcaweni
Chapter 11. Old Persons Cash Grant Pay-out Days: How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa
Gloria Sauti
Afterword: End of Development and Rise of Decoloniality as the Future
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Mpofu
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