Rethinking and Unthinking Development

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.

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Introduction: Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa

Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni



PART I: THEORY, CONCEPTS AND DISCOURSE



Chapter 1. Rethinking Development in the Age of Global Coloniality

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni



Chapter 2. Rethinking and Reclaiming Development in Africa

Vusi Gumede



Chapter 3. Elusive Solutions to Poverty and Inequality: From ‘Trickle Down’ to ‘Solidarity Economy’

Tidings P. Ndhlovu



PART II: DEVELOPMENT, URBANISM AND POVERTY



Chapter 4. Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Rudo Barbra Gaidzanwa



Chapter 5. Theory of Poverty or Poverty of Theory?: A Decolonial Intervention on Urban Poverty in South Africa

Raymond Nyapokoto and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni



PART III: EMPOWERMENT, REGIONALISM, IDENTY AND DEVELOPMENT



Chapter 6. The ‘Native Returns’: Assessing and Re-imagining Indigenisation and Black Economic Empowerment as Development Projects in the ‘Post-colony’

Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa and Tinashe Lukas Chimedza



Chapter 7. Ethno-Politics and Regionalism in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: The Matabeleland Development Question and the Imperative for Development Redress after the Crisis

Vusilizwe Thebe



Chapter 8. The Politics of Land Ownership in South Africa: Self-Perceptions and Identities of Backyard Dwellers within the Coloured Community

Wendy Isaacs-Martin



PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL POLICY AND AFRICAN FAMILIES



Chapter 9. Understanding the Conceptualisation of African Families: A Social Policy Development Poser in South Africa

Busani Mpofu



Chapter 10. Socio-economic and Cultural Barriers to Marital Unions and HIV Incidence Correlates: A Public Policy Poser for South Africa?

Busani Ngcaweni



Chapter 11. Old Persons Cash Grant Pay-out Days: How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa

Gloria Sauti



Afterword: End of Development and Rise of Decoloniality as the Future

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Mpofu



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