Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa

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.

Introduction

Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi



Chapter 1: Development Paradigms and the Framing of Postcolonial Identity: Urbanization, Waterfront Development, and the Eko o ni baje Ethos/Slogan in Lagos

Adebisi Alade

Chapter 2. Nationalism in Postcolonial Studies: A Case for Hybridity

Nick T. C. Lu

Chapter 3: Maintaining Law and Order or Maintaining Conditions Ideal for the Exploitation of

Africa? A Post-Colonial Critique of Colonial Development Assumptions

Biko Agozino

Chapter 4. Postcolonial Development and Nailiyat Dance of Algeria: An Unorthodox Approach

Fouad Mami

Chapter 5: Colonialism and the Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Daring to Push

the Epistemological Frontiers for African Re-Development Paradigms

Nathan Moyo and Jairos Gonye

Chapter 6: Deconstructing Colonial Development Models: Rethinking Africa’s Moral Economy and Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Rural Development in Post-Colonial Africa

Mike Odey

Chapter 7: Decolonization and Deconstruction of Colonial Development in Post-Colonial Africa Alternative Development Initiatives and the Contentions

Victor I. Ogharanduku

Chapter 8: Challenging the “Colonial Development Model”: The Quest for an Indigenous African Modelin Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood

Solomon Awuzie

Chapter 9. Nationalism and the Decolonization of the Ideology of Development in Africa

Matthew D. Ogali

Chapter 10: Women, Resistance Movements and Colonialism in Africa: Evidence from Egypt,

Kenya and Nigeria

Moses J. Yakubu and Olusegun Adeyeri

Chapter 11. African Migrations to Europe: A Historical Appraisal of Transcultural Exchanges and Decolonization in the Age of Globalization

John Ebute Agaba and Emmanuel S. Okla

Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Development Model and the Quest for Alternatives in Africa

Olayinka Akanle and Chukwuka Blessing Chidiogo

Chapter 13: Colonialism and Misconception of Development in Benin Province: The Case of the Oil Palm Industry

Fred Ekpe Ayokhai

Chapter 14. Decolonizing State Fragility and Forced Migration in Post-Colonial Nigeria

Olanrewaju Faith Osasumwen