5 - Exploring Thought Leadership, Thought Liberation and Critical Consciousness for Africa’s Development
Corresponding Author(s) : Vusi Gumede
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 40 No 4 (2015): Afrique et développement
Résumé
Il a été soutenu que tous les débats sur le développement social et économique de l’Afrique doivent prendre en compte les trois questions essentielles qui restent les contraintes urgentes pour améliorer le bien-être en Afrique :le leadership éclairé, la libération de la pensée et la conscience critique. Le modèle de développement socio-économique devrait s’ancrer dans ces trois « ingrédients ». Comme je l’ai souligné ailleurs, on se souviendra très probablement du XXIe siècle comme du siècle de l’Asie d’abord, et ensuite comme celui de l’Amérique du Sud. L’Afrique manquera très probablement d’en faire son propre siècle alors qu’elle devrait mettre en place tout le mécanisme nécessaire afin de saisir le vingt-deuxième siècle.
Dans ce contexte, le présent article soutient que le leadership éclairé, la libération de la pensée et la conscience critique devraient permettre à l’Afrique de faire face de façon vigoureuse à toute contrainte limitant son progrès. La mise en œuvre de ces trois « instruments », le trio, devrait se faire en même temps, car le leadership éclairé sans conscience critique est inutile. De plus, le leadership éclairé sans un esprit libéré est futile. Une meilleure prise de conscience, fondée sur la compréhension globale des phénomènes, permet d’avoir des leaders plus éclairés. Il a également été soutenu que le leadership éclairé en Afrique doit pouvoir produire une citoyenneté africaine non seulement critique mais aussi consciente, ancrée dans les philosophies panafricanistes et orientée vers la mise en œuvre de l’agenda de la renaissance africaine. Pour ce faire et traiter avec succès d’autres questions pertinentes, l’Afrique devrait tirer parti de son passé glorieux. L’article montre également l’importance de la production et la diffusion de connaissances, l’organisation et la mise en œuvre de la praxis révolutionnaire.
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Adedeji, A., 2002, From the Lagos Plan of Action to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and from the Final Act of Lagos to the Constitutive Act: Wither Africa? Keynote address to the African Forum for Envisioning Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 26–29 April.
Ake, C., 1981, A Political Economy of Africa, London: Longman.
Ake, C., 1996, Democracy and Development in Africa, Maryland: Brookings Institution.
Amin, S., 1972, ‘Underdevelopment and dependence in black Africa: historical origin’, Journal of Peace Research 9 (2): 105–20.
Amin, S., 1997, Capitalism in the Age of Globalisation: The Management of Contemporary Society, Cape Town: Zeb Books.
Asante, M.K., 2000, The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices from Imhotep to Akhenaten, Illinois: African-American Images.
Asante, M., 2007, An Afrocentric Manifesto: Toward an African Renaissance, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Ayittey, G., 2005, Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa’s Future, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Biko, S., 1978, I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, Sandton: Heinemann Publishers.
Cleaveland, T., 2008, ‘Timbuktu and Walata: Lineages and Higher Education’, in Jeppie, S. and Diagne, S.B., eds, The Meanings of Timbuktu, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Davidson, B., 1992, The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State, Oxford: James Currey.
Diagne, S.B., 2008, Towards an Intellectual History of West Africa: The Meaning of Timbuktu, in Jeppie, S. and Diagne, S.B., eds, The Meanings of Timbuktu, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Diop, A., 1955, The African Origin of Civilisation: Myth or Reality, Paris: Presence Africaine.
Edigheji, O., 2004, ‘The African state and socio-economic development: an institutional perspective’, African Journal of Political Science 9 (1): 84–103.
Falola, T., 2004, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, New York: University of Rochester Press.
Fanon, F., 1961, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove Press.
Fine, B., 2009, ‘Development as zombie economics in the age of neo-liberalism’, Third World Quarterly 30 (5): 885–904.
Freire, P., 1970, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum.
Grosfoguel, R., 2007, ‘The epistemic decolonial turn: beyond political economy paradigms’, Cultural Studies 21: 211–13.
Keita, L., 2014, ‘On the problematic state of economic “science”, Africa Development XXXIX (1): 93–124.
Gumede, V. 2013, African Economic Renaissance as a Paradigm for Africa’s Socio-Economic Development’, in Kondlo, K., ed., Perspectives in Thought Leadership for Africa’s Renewal, Pretoria: AISA Press.
Gumede, V., 2015, ‘Editorial’, Africa Development XL (3): 1–12.
Gumede, V., and Pooe, T.K., 2014, ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Africa Trade: The Role of African Governments in the Context of African Renaissance’, in Muchie, M., Gumede, V., Lukhele-Olorunju, P. and Demissie, H., eds, Unite or Perish: Africa Fifty Years After the Founding of the OAU, Pretoria: AISA Press.
Jerven, M., 2010, African Growth Recurring: An Economic History Perspective on African Growth Episodes: 1690–2010, Simons Papers in Security and Development No. 4, June.
Martin, G., 2012, African Political Thought, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mazrui, A., 2005, ‘Pan-Africanism and the Intellectuals: Rise, Decline and Revival’, in Mkandawire, T., ed., African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Mbeki, T., 2014, The task of the African progressive movement’, The Thinker: Pan-African Quarterly for Thought Leaders, Quarter 1, 59: 12–20.
Mkandawire, T., 2011, ‘Running while others walked: knowledge and the challenge of Africa’s development’, Africa Development XXXVI (2): 1–36.
Mkandawire, T., 2015, ‘Neopatrimonialism and the political economy of economic performance in Africa: critical reflections’, World Politics, May, 1–50.
Mpofu, W., 2013, ‘Coloniality in the scramble for African knowledge: a decolonial political perspective’, Africanus: Journal of Development Studies 43 (2): 105–17.
Mudimbe, V.Y., 1994, The Idea of Africa, Oxford: James Currey.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S., 2013, Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Polanyi, K., 1944, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origin of Our Time, Boston: Beacon Press.
Ribeiro, G., 2011, ‘Why (post)colonialism and (de)coloniality are not enough: a post-imperialist perspective, Postcolonial Studies 14 (3): 285–97.
Robinson, W., 2004, A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a Transnational World, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rodney, W., 1972, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Dar es Salaam: Ujuzi Books.
Sen, A., 1999, Development as Freedom, New York: Anchor.
Sesanti, S., 2015, ‘Teaching African philosophy in African institutions of higher learning: the implications for African renaissance’, South African Journal of Philosophy 34 (3): 346–57.
Shivji, I., 2009, Accumulation in an African Periphery: A Theoretical Framework, Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.
Stiglitz, J. Lin, J. Monga, C. and Patel, E., 2013, Industrial Policy in the African Context, Washington, DC: World Bank.
Strange, S., 1994, States and the Markets, London: Bloomsbury.
Tandon, Y., 2015, ‘Development is resistance’, Africa Development XL (3): 139–59.
wa Thiong’o, N., 1986, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey