New African Thinkers: Culture at the Heart of Sustainable Development
Olga Bialostocka, editor | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2565-7 $25.00 |
2018/173 pages
Distributed for HSRC Press |
DESCRIPTION
In New African Thinkers, young scholars from across Africa discuss their vision for the social, political, and economic future of their continent. A unifying element running throughout their work is the argument that culture—defined broadly as a way of life, system of values and controls, and modes of practice and expression—lies at the heart of a reimagined Africa: a place of prosperity and socioeconomic well-being, integration, and self-determination.
The book grew out of the Tenth African Young Graduates and Scholars conference, the theme of which was the African Union's Agenda 2063.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Olga Bialostocka is a researcher at the Human Sciences Research Council's Africa Institute of South Africa.
CONTENTS
- Introduction—A. Bialostocka and V. Mjimba.
- A PROSPEROUS AFRICA BASED ON INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
- Culture of Corruption or Corruption of Culture? Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa—J.O. David.
- Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Rural Development in Botswana: A Case Study—M. Seleka.
- How Africans Trade Their Riches for Roads and Bridges: Three Stories—D.P. Zongwe.
- AN AFRICA OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRACY, RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, AND THE RULE OF LAW.
- The Tinkhundla Monarchical Democracy: An African System of Good Governance?—H. Dlamini
- Rights-Recognition Theory: An African Perspective—S.W. Ndwandwe.
- Postconflict Rehabilitation of the Child: Psychology and the Law in Africa—A. Onuora-Oguno and S. Shaanika.
- AN AFRICA WITH A STRONG CULTURAL IDENTITY, COMMON HERITAGE, SHARED VALUES, AND ETHICS.
- Political Leadership and Cultural Identity—N.K. Mwila.
- Visioning the Africa We Want: Post-Africanism and the Art of Titus Matiyane—P. Sidogi.
- Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage: Indigenous Songs of the Naro of Botswana—M.F. Rabatoko.
- AN AFRICA WHERE DEVELOPMENT IS PEOPLE DRIVEN, UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF WOMEN AND YOUTH.
- Stokvels as Small-Business Financiers in KwaZulu Natal—M.J. Ndlovu.
- POSTSCRIPT.
- #Sowhat? Or a Letter to New African Thinkers—O. Bialostocka and V. Mjimba.
