Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa: A New Postcolonial Critique - Paperback

by Luke A. Amadi (Editor), Fidelis Allen (Editor), James Olusegun Adeyeri (Contribution by)

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 advocates 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.

Author Biography

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.