7 - Philosophy and Development On the Problematic of African Development: A Diachronie Analysis
Corresponding Author(s) : Lansana Keita
Africa Development,
Vol. 29 No. 1 (2004): Africa Development: Special Issue on 'Philosophy and Development'
Abstract
The idea of development is generally seen as central to any discussion of the economic, cultural, and political sociologies of the world's nations. Nations of the West are seen as 'developed' and members of the 'First World', while those of Africa, Latin America and some of those of Asia are seen as 'developing'and belonging to the 'Third World'. I propose to examine the meaning and application of the term 'development' with respect to Africa, then discuss whether Africa was ever developed—recognizing that the term is temporally relative. I will also discuss the idea of what Africa 'would look like' were it at the frontiers of development. I will then examine theories and applications of theories of development for Africa. Finally, I will examine current theories of development and their potential for success in Africa. Theories to be examined are the neoclassical theory, dependency theory, post-structuralism, and developmentalism.
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- Baran, P., 1957, The Political Economy of Economie Growth, New York, Monthly Review Press.
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- Bruges, Belgium, College of Europe.
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Baran, P., 1957, The Political Economy of Economie Growth, New York, Monthly Review Press.
Biel, R., 2000, The New lmperialism-The Crisis and Contradictions in North/ South Relations, London, Zed Books.
David, W. L., 1997, The Conversation of Economie Development-Historical Voices, lnterpretations and Reality, Armonk, New York, M.E. Sharpe.
Diop, C.A., 1987, Precolonial Black Africa, New York, Lawrence Hill Books. Diop, C.A.., 1991, Civilization or Barbarism-An Authentic Anthropology, NewYork, Lawrence Hill Books.
Emmanuel, A., 1972, Unequal Exchange: A Study of the lmperialism of Trade.New York, Monthly Review Press.
Fanon, F., 1968, The Wretched of the Earth, New York, Grove Press.
Frank, AG, 1967, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. NewYork: Monthly Review Press.
Friedman, M., 1953, Essays in Positive Economies, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
Furtado, C., 1963, The Economie Growth ofBrazil, Berkeley CA, The University ofCalifomia Press.3reen, R. and Seidman A., 1968, Unity or Poverty? The Economies of PanAfi'icanism, Baltimore MD, Penguin Books.
Hirshman, A, 1958, A Strategy of Economie Development, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press.
Ibn Khaldun, 1868, Prolegomenes Historiques, translated Slane, 3 vols., Paris. Klein, R.G., 1989, The Human Career-Human Biological and Cultural Origins,Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
Lewis, W.A., 1955, The Theory of Economie Growth, London, Allen and Unwin List, F., 1983, The Natural System of Political Economy, London, Frank Cass.
Nkrumah, K., 1965, Neocolonialism, the Last Stage of lmperialism, London, Heinemann.
Peet, R. and Hardwick, E., 1999, Theories of Development, New York, Guilford Press.
Pieterse, J. N., 2001, Development Theo,y-Deconstructions/Reconstructions,London, Sage Publications.
Prebisch, R., 1960, Economie Developmentfor Latin America and Its Principal Problems, New York, United Nations.
Rostow, W. W., 1960, The Stages of Economie Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesta, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Roussakis, E.N., 1968, Freidrich List, The Zollverein, and the Uniting of Europe.
Bruges, Belgium, College of Europe.
Solow, R.M., 1970, Growth Theory and Exposition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
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