What is it about?
The work attempts to clarify prevailing assumptions and ambiguities on the definitions of development. The study establishes that there is such thing as 'epistemic colonialism" of Africa in African studies, and to have a value free epistemology on Africa's development, the scholar who must not be African to study Africa needs to display "Afritude" - an attitude but also a redemptive postulate for studying Africa in terms of Africa.
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Why is it important?
The paper is important because it calls for a holistic rather than a western understanding of Africas development.
Perspectives
I consider this paper a call for rebirth in African studies of Africa's development as it leaps the understanding of Africa to better light
Dr Abel Akintoye Akintunde
Bowen University
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This page is a summary of: Conceptualizing and Framing Realities of Africa’s Development, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66242-8_2.
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