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Book SynopsisSorting Africa''s Development Puzzle: The Participatory Social Learning Theory as an Alternative Approach is a comprehensive exploration of why Africa has not managed to achieve a sustainable and self-regenerating development over the past half-century of effort. The work situates the problems of Africa''s persistent underdevelopment in the practices employed by national political elites, donors, and lenders to African development that played roles in determinant policy and planning. Unlike many newly developed countries and regions, and contrary to the historical experiences of developed countries where ordinary people were full stakeholders and drivers of development, Africa''s development has been top-down, expert and capital driven, mechanical, and typically externally designed. Ordinary Africans were made marginal to development. This approach to Africa''s development was devoid of building the people and their institutions as the legitimate means of development. The entrusting
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Figures and Tables Chapter 2 Acronyms Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Introduction Chapter 6 Chapter 1: Selected Development Theories: Some Post-World War II Theoretical Contests Chapter 7 Chapter 2: The Alternative Development Theory: The Participatory Social Learning Development Theory and Model for Africa Chapter 8 Chapter 3: The Institutional Imperative: Its Condition in Africa and Implications for Development Chapter 9 Chapter 4: The Human Resource Imperative Chapter 10 Chapter 5: The Resource Imperative: Natural and Man-enhanced Resources for Development Chapter 11 Chapter 6: The Technology Imperative Chapter 12 Chapter 7: The Investment Capital Imperative Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Putting Together the Development Puzzle: The Participatory Social Learning Paradigm and the Five Development Imperatives in Practice: Case Studies Chapter 14 Chapter 9: African Women: The Continent's Undervalued and Overworked Development Assets Chapter 15 Chapter 10: Looking Ahead: Some Afterthoughts Chapter 16 References
