Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique confronts colonial development models to decolonize methodologies, epistemologies, and the history and practice of development in postcolonial African societies and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. By taking a critical approach and drawing on postcolonial, postmodern, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the contributors identify and analyze the effects of global inequality, racism, white supremacy, crisis, climate change, increasing environmental insecurity, underdevelopment, chronic diseases, and the vulnerability of the postcolonial societies of the global South. Together, the collection calls for and theorizes a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives.
Fidelis Allen is professor of development studies in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Port Harcourt. Luke Amadi received his Ph.D. in development studies from the University of Port Harcourt and is currently guest editor at Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.
Introduction Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi Chapter 1: Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos Adebisi Alade Chapter 2. Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity Nick T. C. Lu Chapter 3: Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of Africa? A Post-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions Biko Agozino Chapter 4. Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach Fouad Mami Chapter 5: Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-Development Paradigms Nathan Moyo and Jairos Gonye Chapter 6: Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa's Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Colonial Africa Mike Odey Chapter 7: Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Post-Colonial Africa Alternative Development Initiatives and the Contentions Victor I. Ogharanduku Chapter 8: Challenging the "Colonial Development Model": The Quest for an Indigenous African Modelin Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood Solomon Awuzie Chapter 9. Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa Matthew D. Ogali Chapter 10: Women, Resistance Movements and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria Moses J. Yakubu and Olusegun Adeyeri Chapter 11. African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization John Ebute Agaba and Emmanuel S. Okla Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa Olayinka Akanle and Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo Chapter 13: Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry Fred Ekpe Ayokhai Chapter 14. Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Post-Colonial Nigeria Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen
