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Contents

List of Abbreviations
List of Tables and Figures

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

References
Index

Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Edited by Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

288 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-78920-176-5 Hb Published (March 2019)

eISBN 978-1-78920-177-2 eBook

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Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

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.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany; Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal & Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA); Professor Extraordinarius at the Centre for Gender and African Studies at the University of Free State (UFS) in South Africa; Honorary Professor in the School of Education (Education & Development Studies) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa; Research Associate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa; and Research Associate at The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at The Open University in the United Kingdom.

Subject: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Africa

LC: HC905 .R48 2019

BL: DRT ELD.DS.392715

BISAC: SOC042000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Developing Countries; POL023000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Economy; POL045000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

BIC: GTF Development studies; KCP Political economy