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African families
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basic needs
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Capitalism
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Coloniality
Coloured identity
Culture
decolonial epistemic perspective
decoloniality
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Deindustrialisation
development
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Empowerment
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Ethnicity
family policy
Indigenization
informal work
landlessness
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Matabeleland
Modernization
Native
nuclear family
opulence
Post-development
power
Punitive State
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SDG 10
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solidarity economy
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Underdevelopment
unemployment
urban poverty
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781800736450
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Feb 2023
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
About

Busani Mpofu is Associate Professor in the Development Studies Department, University of South Africa. He researches on Third world urbanisation and the history of African cities, urban poverty, inclusive development, development discourse and theory.