ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses people's individual and societal exploration in Africa, for it is cradle of humankind. It explores remarkable African approaches to development, with the help of African American scholar Clyde Ford. The American cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien will guide people into the fourfold way of indigenous people. The chapter deals with one's 'self', such a self is to be seen contextualised within a learning community and within a particular development context. In starting the development journey the chapter reflects on it from perspective of those people to whom much development work has been 'applied' in vain and who are still suffering from being materially excluded from many of the riches of people's time: the Africans. The chapter proposes an approach to development that not only measures performance of those countries based on their economic productivity, but rather serves to build up shared human perspective whereby multifaceted contribution of each world region and society forms a vital and inclusive part.
