"This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos
  • Introduction
  • Imagined Cities: Theorizing Exogenous African Urban Development Fantasies
  • Historical Context (Late Colonial Policy) of Urban Regeneration in Lagos
  • Postcolonial Urban Renewal: Eko O Ni Baje Ethos and Makoko Waterfront Settlement
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 2: Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity
  • Introduction
  • Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: From Kant and Marx to the Postcolonial Present
  • Hybridity and the Unlearning of Nationalism
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 3: Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of Africa?: A Counter-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions
  • Introduction
  • Colonial Government as Economic Exploiter
  • Law, Order, and Exploitation
  • The Agrarian and National Program of the Africana Mass Party
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 4: Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach
  • Introduction
  • Dance and Development Contrapuntally Approached
  • A Multilayered Bias against the Dance
  • Reading Bodily Movements
  • The Open Temporality of the Dance and Decolonial Development
  • Allegations of Prostitution Contextualized
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
• Chapter 5: Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-development Paradigms
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Colonialism and the Destruction of IKS: The Power/Knowledge Nexus
  • African Traditional Dances and Histories as Targets of Colonial Epistemicide: The Case of Zimbabwe
  • Toward an African Critical Race Theory (AfriCrit) for Africa’s Self-Development
  • With Self-Interested Models Everywhere, Wherefore Africa?
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 6: Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa’s Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Postcolonial Africa
  • Introduction
  • Literature Review on Colonial Rule in Africa
  • Conceptual Framework
  • African Moral Economy
  • Conceptual Framework on Social Entrepreneurship
  • Deconstructing the Colonial Model of Development in Africa
  • Rethinking African Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Endogenous Alternative Model of Development in Postcolonial Africa
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 7: Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Postcolonial Africa: Alternative Development Initiatives and the Contentions
  • Introduction
  • A Brief Conceptualization of Development in the Context of Postcolonial Africa
  • A Review of Postcolonial Africa’s ADIs
  • The ADIs and Postcolonial Africa’s Contentions
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 8: Challenging the “Colonial Development Model”: The Quest for an Indigenous African Model in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood
  • Introduction
  • The “Colonial Development Model” Discourse and the Glory of the African Past
  • Mapping African Indigenous Development Model
  • The African Development Model versus The Colonial Development Model in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood (1977)
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 9: Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • The Political Theory of Nationalism
  • Papal Imperialism and National Consciousness in the Medieval Era
  • Colonialism and Economic Disarticulation in Africa
  • Ideology of Decolonization
  • Nationalism and the Ideology of Development
  • Toward an African Paradigm of Development
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 10: Women, Resistance Movements, and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Kenya, and Nigeria
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Understanding Women’s Plight under Colonial Rule
  • African Women under Colonial Rule
  • Women and Resistance Movement in Egypt
  • The Women’s Revolt in South East Nigeria
  • Women Fighters in the Mau Mau Movement
  • Analysis of the Rebellious Movements and Implications for Decolonization of Gender
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 11: African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization
  • Introduction
  • Conceptual Clarifications and Theoretical Framework
  • Factors Responsible for Migration of Africans to Europe
  • Transcultural Exchanges between African Migrants and Their Hosts in Europe
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa
  • Introduction
  • Decolonial Theoretical Framework
  • Colonial Development Models: Theoretical Perspectives
  • Modernization Theory
  • Globalization Theory
  • Deconstructing the Colonial Development Models: Alternative Approaches
  • Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  • Africanizing Development Models
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 13: Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing Colonial Development Construct
  • “Colonial Development” from the Lens of Colonial Policies
  • Colonial Oil Palm Appropriation Policies in Benin Province
  • Conclusion: Toward Deconstructing Colonial Development
  • References
  • Archival Sources
• Chapter 14: Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Postcolonial Nigeria
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Framework
  • State Fragility and Forced Migration in Colonial Nigeria
  • State Fragility and Forced Migration in Postcolonial Nigeria
  • Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Postcolonial Nigeria
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors