Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. The resulting development interventions are too rarely locally rooted, locally driven, or resonant with local context. At the same time, theories and practices from developing countries rarely travel to the Western agencies dominating development, undermining the possibility of a beneficial synergy that could be obtained from the best of both worlds. There are many reasons why the experiences of locally driven development are not communicated back to global development actors, including, but not limited to, the marginal role of Southern voices in global forums.
This volume gives a platform to authentic African voices and non-African collaborators, to explore what endogenous development means, how it can be implemented, and how an endogenous development approach can shape local, national and global policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.
1. Introduction – Endogenous development: naïve romanticism or practical route to sustainable African development? Part I: Defining endogenous development 2. Identifying and understanding African norms and values that support endogenous development in Africa 3. Endogenous development: some issues of concern 4. African family values in a globalised world: the speed and intensity of change in post-colonial Africa Part II: Endogenous development in practice 5. African philanthropy, pan-Africanism, and Africa´s development 6. Wiki approaches to wicked problems: considering African traditions in innovative collaborative approaches 7. Using Rwandan traditions to strengthen programme and policy implementation 8. Lessons of endogenous leadership in Nigeria: innovating to reduce waste and raise incomes in the cassava processing and goat-keeping systems 9. Centring African culture in water, sanitation, and hygiene development praxis in Ghana: a case for endogenous development 10. Endogenous development in Somalia: bridging the gap between traditional and Western implementation methodologies 11. Water tariff conflict resolution through indigenous participation in tri-water sector partnerships: Dalun cluster communities in northern Ghana 12. Endogenous African governance systems: what roles do women play in rural Malawi? 13. Putting endogenous development into practice Part III: Endogenous development in a globalised world 14. Donors and exogenous versus endogenous development 15. Indigenous languages and Africa´s development dilemma Part IV: Moving forward with endogenous development 16. Endogenous development going forward: learning and action
Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. This book gives a platform for thirteen African voices, academics and practitioners, to turn this Western-led theory around, and talk about an endogenous development process rooted in African philosophy, traditions and experience, and shaped by African decision-makers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.
