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Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity aims to contest the Eurocentric narrative of an African development discourse. This book deploys the theory of Afrocentricity as an intellectual standpoint from which African thinkers should interrogate and reconceptualize the discourse of development in Africa. Particularly, the book argues in favour of the Afrocentric re-interpretation of African history, African culture and assertion of African agency as the core building wedge in the reconceptualization of the ideal African development trajectory.
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Relevance of the Dialogue; Overview of the Book; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Grounding: Afrocentricity’s Approach to Development; 3. Critique of Eurocentrism and a Mapping of African Development Initiatives; 4. Afrocentricity on the Significance of African History for Development; 5. Afrocentricity on the Significance of Culture in the Conceptualization of an African Development Paradigm; 6. Afrocentricity on the Significance of African Agency in Development in Africa; Bibliography; Index