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Developing Africa?

New Horizons with Afrocentricity

Lehasa Moloi

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English
Anthem Press
12 March 2024
Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity aims to contest the Eurocentric narrative of an African development discourse.

This book deploys the theory of Afrocentricity as an intellectual standpoint from which African thinkers should interrogate and reconceptualise the discourse of development in Africa. Particularly, the book argues in favour of the Afrocentric re-interpretation of African history, African culture and assertion of African agency as the core building wedge in the reconceptualisation of the ideal African development trajectory.
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Imprint:   Anthem Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781839990823
ISBN 10:   1839990821
Series:   Anthem Africology Series
Pages:   158
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Relevance of the Dialogue; Overview of the Book; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Grounding: Afrocentricity’s Approach to Development; 3. Critique of Eurocentrism and a Mapping of African Development Initiatives; 4. Afrocentricity on the Significance of African History for Development; 5. Afrocentricity on the Significance of Culture in the Conceptualization of an African Development Paradigm; 6. Afrocentricity on the Significance of African Agency in Development in Africa; Bibliography; Index

Dr. Lehasa Moloi is an Afrocentric scholar grounded in the paradigm of Afrocentricity. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD in Development Studies. He broadly reflects and writes on Africa, knowledge, development and decolonisation.

Reviews for Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity

“In Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity, Lehasa Moloi positions African culture and agency as the central foci for the development of Africa. Moloi makes a brilliant case for why Africa should not seek to chase Europe but instead pursue a type of development that is based on the epistemological paradigms germane to the African cultural-historical matrix.” —Taharka Adé, author of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Africa: Scrambling for a New Africa, and Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, San Diego State University, USA. “This book hastens the Afrocentric turn in Development studies. It not only escapes the coloniality of development studies theories but demonstrates why it needs to be done and how to do it. It will significantly contribute to the transformation of Development studies in Africa to Afrofuturism studies.” —Olusegun Nelson Morakinyo, Visiting Research Fellow, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; Research Associate, Department of History, UNISA, South Africa This is an important contribution to the teaching of Afrocentric development in development studies courses, both in Africa and in the West. —CHOICE


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