ABSTRACT
This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide them in planning and implementing programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics, democracy, education, gender, technology, global relationships and the role of non-governmental organisations). The authors challenge the familiar paradigms in order to show how imperfectly, if at all, assumptions about globalisation and development theories have failed in their depictions and applications to Africa. The scholars in this volume both inform and advocate for a re-visioning of perceptions on Africa and how it navigates global processes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|66 pages
Social and Institutional Development
chapter 1|16 pages
Globalisation and Africa
chapter 4|17 pages
Globalisation, Sovereign Debt and Adjustment Programmes in Africa
part II|68 pages
Technology and Global Partnerships
chapter 7|16 pages
Globalisation, NGOs and Multi-Sectoral Relations
part III|52 pages
Gender, Migration and Settlement
chapter 9|20 pages
Evidence Based Policy-Making in the Age of Globalisation
chapter 10|14 pages
The Cracks and the Crevices
part IV|51 pages
Education and Globalisation In Africa